Promoter transgenics reveal multiple gonadotropin-releasing hormone-I- expressing cell populations of different embryological origin in mouse brain

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 19, Issue 14, 1999, Pages 5955-5966

  Skynner, Michael J ^a   Slater, Ruth ^a   Sim, Joan A ^a   Allen, Nick D ^a   Herbison, Allan E ^a,b  

^a BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b Laboratory of Neuroendocrinology   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Development; Gonadotropin releasing hormone; Luteinizing hormone releasing hormone; Mouse; Pax 6; Promoter transgenics; Septum; galactosidase

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL POPULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMBRYO; EMBRYO DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; FERTILITY; GONADORELIN RELEASE; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POSTNATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; TRANSGENE;

EID: 0033565777     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.19-14-05955.1999     Document Type: Article

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