Colocalization of arginine-vasotocin and chicken luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone-I (cLHRH-I) in the preoptic-hypothalamic region of the chicken

Brain Research

Volumn 856, Issue 1-2, 2000, Pages 55-67

  D'Hondt, Els ^a   Eelen, Marianne ^a   Berghman, Luc ^b   Vandesande, Frans ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

AVT; cLHRH I; Colocalization; Hypothalamus; Immunocytochemistry; Neuropeptide

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESTOCIN; GONADORELIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HORMONE RELEASE; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; CHICKENS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NEURONS; PREOPTIC AREA; PYRROLIDONECARBOXYLIC ACID; VASOTOCIN;

EID: 0033983940     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(99)02271-4     Document Type: Article

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