Hypophysial and meningeal melanocytes in the zucker rat

Pigment Cell Research

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 1999, Pages 323-330

  Fetissov, Sergueï O ^a,c   Barcza, Maureen A ^b   Meguid, Michael M ^a   Oler, Albert ^b  

^a Surg Metab and Nutr Laboratory   (United States)

^b University Hospital   (United States)

^c SUNY UPSTATE MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Brain; Dopamine; HMB 45; Median eminence; Melanin; Pituitary

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BRAIN; BRAIN ARTERY; CYTOLOGY; DENDRITE; DURA MATER; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FISCHER 344 RAT; HYPOPHYSIS; MELANOCYTE; MELANOSOME; MENINX; METABOLISM; RAT; ULTRASTRUCTURE; VASCULARIZATION; ZUCKER RAT;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CEREBRAL ARTERIES; DENDRITES; DOPAMINE; DURA MATER; MELANOCYTES; MELANOSOMES; MENINGES; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; PITUITARY GLAND; RATS; RATS, INBRED F344; RATS, ZUCKER;

EID: 0033209442     PISSN: 08935785     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0749.1999.tb00766.x     Document Type: Article

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