Special relationship of γ-aminobutyric acid to the ventromedial nucleus of the hypothalamus during embryonic development

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 405, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 88-98

  Tobet, Stuart A ^a,d   Henderson, Rachel G ^a   Whiting, Paul J ^b   Sieghart, Werner ^c  

^a HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b NEUROSCIENCE RESEARCH CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Estrogen receptor; GABA receptors; Neuropeptide Y; Pattern formation

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; 4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID A RECEPTOR; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; RECEPTOR SUBUNIT;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE ANATOMY; CYTOARCHITECTURE; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; NEUROPATHOLOGY; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; EMBRYO; EMBRYONIC AND FETAL DEVELOPMENT; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR ALPHA; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; HYPOTHALAMUS, MIDDLE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; RECEPTORS, GABA-A;

EID: 0033103405     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19990301)405:1<88::AID-CNE7>3.0.CO;2-0     Document Type: Article

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