An electrophysiological and morphological investigation of the projections of growth hormone-releasing peptide-6-responsive neurons in the rat arcuate nucleus to the median eminence and to the paraventricular nucleus

Neuroscience

Volumn 90, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 875-883

  Honda, K ^a   Bailey, A R T ^a   Bull, P M ^a   MacDonald, L P ^b   Dickson, S L ^b   Leng, G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Arcuate nucleus; FluoroGold; Fos protein; GHRP 6; Neuropeptide Y; Paraventricular nucleus

Indexed keywords

FLUOROGOLD; HISTIDYL DEXTRO TRYPTOPHYLALANYLTRYPTOPHYL DEXTRO PHENYLALANYLLYSINAMIDE; MESSENGER RNA; PROTEIN C FOS;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; MALE; MEDIAN EMINENCE; MORPHOLOGY; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; ONCOGENE C FOS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FLUORESCENT DYES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INJECTIONS; MALE; MEDIAN EMINENCE; NEURONS; OLIGOPEPTIDES; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RATS, WISTAR; STILBAMIDINES; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0032894675     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(98)00532-6     Document Type: Article

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