Identification of neuronal input to the arcuate nucleus (ARH) activated during lactation: Implications in the activation of neuropeptide Y neurons

Brain Research

Volumn 824, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 267-276

  Li, Chien ^a   Chen, Peilin ^a   Smith, M Susan ^a  

^a OREGON HEALTH AND SCIENCE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

'Suckling; Arcuate nucleus; Lactation; Neuropeptide Y; Retrograde tracing

Indexed keywords

NEUROPEPTIDE Y;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LACTATION; MEDIAL PREOPTIC AREA; MESENCEPHALON; NONHUMAN; PARABRACHIAL NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRIA TERMINALIS; SUCKLING;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, SUCKLING; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; BRAIN STEM; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LACTATION; MESENCEPHALON; NEURONS; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY;

EID: 0033541511     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(99)01217-2     Document Type: Article

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