Catecholaminergic and neuropeptide Y-immunoreactive synaptic inputs onto median preoptic nucleus neurons projecting to the ventrolateral medullary catecholaminergic area in the rat

Brain Research

Volumn 825, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 204-207

  Kawano, Hitoshi ^a   Masuko, Sadahiko ^a  

^a SAGA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Catecholamine; Median preoptic nucleus; Neuropeptide Y; Retrograde tracing; Synapse; Ventrolateral medulla

Indexed keywords

CATECHOLAMINE; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATECHOLAMINE NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOELECTRON MICROSCOPY; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NERVE ENDING; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PEPTIDERGIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; PREOPTIC NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; RETROGRADE NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; CATECHOLAMINES; MALE; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; PREOPTIC AREA; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SYNAPSES;

EID: 0033577465     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(99)01240-8     Document Type: Article

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