A second look at the barriers of the medial basal hypothalamus

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 132, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 10-26

  Peruzzo, Bruno ^a   Pastor, Francisco E ^b   Blázquez, Juan L ^b   Schöbitz, Karin ^a   Peláez, Belén ^b   Amat, Pedro ^b   Rodríguez, Esteban M ^a  

^a UNIVERSIDAD AUSTRAL DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Arcuate nucleus; Barriers; GLUT I; Median eminence; Monosodium glutamate; Rat; Tanycytes

Indexed keywords

GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER; GLUTAMATE SODIUM;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BLOOD BRAIN BARRIER; BRAIN VENTRICLE; CELL MEMBRANE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS; INTERCELLULAR SPACE; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUBARACHNOID SPACE; TANYCYTE;

AGING; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; BLOOD-BRAIN BARRIER; FEMALE; GLUCOSE TRANSPORTER TYPE 1; HORSERADISH PEROXIDASE; HYPOTHALAMUS, MIDDLE; MALE; MEDIAN EMINENCE; MONOSACCHARIDE TRANSPORT PROTEINS; RATS; RATS, INBRED STRAINS; SODIUM GLUTAMATE; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 0034005066     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s002219900289     Document Type: Article

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