Melanin-concentrating hormone and neuropeptide EI projections from the lateral hypothalamic area and zona incerta to the medial septal nucleus and spinal cord: A study using multiple neuronal tracers

Brain Research

Volumn 805, Issue 1-2, 1998, Pages 1-19

  Bittencourt, J C ^a   Elias, C F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Anterograde tracer; Diamidino yellow; Lateral hypothalamic area; Medial septal nucleus; Melanin concentrating hormone; Neuropeptides; Nucleus of diagonal band; Retrograde tracer; Spinal cord; True blue; Zona incerta

Indexed keywords

FLUORESCENT DYE; LEUKOAGGLUTININ; MELANIN CONCENTRATING HORMONE; NEUROPEPTIDE; TRACER; TRUE BLUE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FORNIX; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIENCEPHALON; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LATERAL HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SEPTUM NUCLEUS; SPINAL CORD; ZONA INCERTA;

AMIDINES; ANIMALS; BENZOFURANS; BRAIN; DIENCEPHALON; FLUORESCENT DYES; HYPOTHALAMIC AREA, LATERAL; HYPOTHALAMIC HORMONES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MELANINS; NEURONS; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PITUITARY HORMONES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEPTAL NUCLEI; SPINAL CORD; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0032517162     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(98)00598-8     Document Type: Article

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