Postmortem tracing reveals the organization of hypothalamic projections of the suprachiasmatic nucleus in the human brain

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 400, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 87-102

  Dai, Jiapei ^a   Swaab, Dick F ^a   Van Der Vliet, Jan ^a   Buijs, Ruud M ^a  

^a Netherlands Inst for Brain Research ^*  (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Biological clock; Dorsomedial nucleus of the hypothalamus; Hypothalamus; Paraventricular nucleus; Postmortem tracing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; AUTOPSY; BEHAVIOR; BODY TEMPERATURE; CARDIOVASCULAR RESPONSE; CELL STRUCTURE; CELL SURVIVAL; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EFFERENT NERVE; EVOLUTION; FEMALE; HORMONE RELEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; NERVE PROJECTION; NEUROANATOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION; TISSUE PREPARATION;

ANIMALS; AVIDIN; BIOTIN; BRAIN MAPPING; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; FEMALE; HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE; HUMANS; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 0032511728     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19981012)400:1<87::AID-CNE6>3.0.CO;2-P     Document Type: Article

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