Anatomical demonstration of the suprachiasmatic nucleus - Pineal pathway

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 406, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 171-182

  Teclemariam Mesbah, R ^a   Ter Horst, G J ^b   Postema, F ^b   Wortel, J ^a   Buijs, R M ^a  

^a NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR NEUROSCIENCE   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Circadian; Hypothalamus; Melatonin; Paraventricular nucleus; Sympathetic innervation; Viral tracing

Indexed keywords

MELATONIN; TRACER; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE; VASOPRESSIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; CONFOCAL LASER MICROSCOPY; CONTROLLED STUDY; MALE; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; PINEAL BODY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDORABIES HERPETOVIRUS; RAT; SUPERIOR CERVICAL GANGLION; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; SYMPATHETIC INNERVATION; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS;

EID: 0033526124     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1096-9861(19990405)406:2<171::AID-CNE3>3.0.CO;2-U     Document Type: Article

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