Immunocytochemical study on the localization and distribution of the somatolactin cells in the pituitary gland and the brain of Oreochromis niloticus (Teleostei, Cichlidae)

General and Comparative Endocrinology

Volumn 113, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 197-211

  Mousa, Mostafa A ^a   Mousa, Shaaban A ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY AND FISHERIES   (Egypt)

^b ASWAN UNIVERSITY   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Brain; Immunocytochemistry; Oreochromis niloticus; Pituitary; Somatolactin

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; FEMALE; HABENULA; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HYPOPHYSIS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; PREOPTIC NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEXUAL MATURATION; TEGMENTUM; TELEOST;

EID: 0032941387     PISSN: 00166480     EISSN: 10956840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/gcen.1998.7200     Document Type: Article

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