Distribution of prolactin-releasing peptide-immunoreactive neurons in the rat hypothalamus

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 267, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 113-116

  Yamakawa, Koji ^a   Kudo, Koutarou ^a   Kanba, Shigenobu ^a   Arita, Jun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YAMANASHI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Hypothalamic dorsomedial nucleus; Immunocytochemistry; Prolactin releasing peptide

Indexed keywords

GROWTH HORMONE RELEASING FACTOR; HORMONE ANTIBODY; PROLACTIN RELEASING FACTOR; SOMATOSTATIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

ANIMALS; DORSOMEDIAL HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; FEMALE; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE, INDIRECT; HYPOTHALAMIC HORMONES; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NEURONS; NEUROPEPTIDES; ORGAN SPECIFICITY; PROLACTIN; RATS; RATS, WISTAR;

EID: 0033612239     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(99)00346-8     Document Type: Article

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