Corticotropin-releasing hormone-immunopositive nerve elements in apposition to chicken gonadotropin-releasing hormone I-containing perikarya in Japanese quail (Coturnix coturnix japonica) brain

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 297, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 223-228

  Wang, Ruizhong ^a   Millam, James R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Chicken gonadotropin releasing hormone I; Corticotropin releasing hormone; Coturnix coturnix japonica (Aves); Double label immunohistochemistry; Japanese quail; Reproduction; Stress

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; ANTIBODY CONJUGATE; BRAIN PROTEIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; FLUORESCEIN DERIVATIVE; GONADORELIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRANIAL NERVE; FEMALE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; NERVE FIBER; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; OVARY CYCLE; PERIKARYON; PREOPTIC NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUAIL;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; AXONS; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CHICKENS; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; COTURNIX; EPITOPES; FEMALE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; SPECIES SPECIFICITY;

ANIMALIA; AVES; COTURNIX COTURNIX; COTURNIX JAPONICA; GALLUS GALLUS; JAPONICA; MAMMALIA; ORYCTOLAGUS CUNICULUS; OVIS ARIES; PHASIANIDAE;

EID: 0032782416     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s004410051350     Document Type: Article

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