Direct pathways to the supraoptic nucleus from the brainstem and the main olfactory bulb are activated at parturition in the rat

Neuroscience

Volumn 101, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 1013-1021

  Meddle, S L ^a   Leng, G ^a   Selvarajah, J R ^a   Bicknell, R J ^b   Russell, J A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Catecholamines; Fos; Nucleus tractus solitarii; Organum vasculosum of the lamina terminalis; Retrograde tracing; Ventrolateral medulla

Indexed keywords

CATECHOLAMINE; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BIRTH; BRAIN STEM; CATECHOLAMINERGIC SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; OLFACTORY BULB; ONCOGENE C FOS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOLITARY TRACT NUCLEUS; SUPRAOPTIC NUCLEUS;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; ANIMALS; BRAIN STEM; CATECHOLAMINES; FEMALE; LABOR, OBSTETRIC; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; OLFACTORY BULB; PREGNANCY; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOLITARY NUCLEUS; SUPRAOPTIC NUCLEUS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 0034736190     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(00)00300-6     Document Type: Article

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