Presence of oxytocinergic neuronal-like cells in the bovine pineal gland: An immunocytochemical and in situ hybridization study

Journal of Pineal Research

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 273-280

  Badiu, Corin ^a   Badiu, Liliana ^b   Coculescu, Mihail ^a   Vilhardt, Hans ^c   Møller, Morten ^c  

^a CAROL DAVILA UNIVERSITY OF MEDICINE AND PHARMACY   (Romania)

^b UNIVERSITY POLITEHNICA OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Intrinsic innervation; Neuron; Oxytocin; Peptides; Pineal

Indexed keywords

MESSENGER RNA; NEUROPHYSIN; OXYTOCIN;

ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CATTLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; INNERVATION; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PINEAL BODY; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY;

EID: 0034807760     PISSN: 07423098     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1600-079X.2001.310312.x     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. Testicular oxytocin gene expression in seminiferous tubules of cattle and transgenic mice
2. Arginine vasotocin mRNA revealed by in situ hybridization in bovine pineal gland cells
3. Isolation and structure elucidation of bovine pineal oxytocin and an antigonadotropic peptide
4. Vasopressin- and oxytocin-containing fibres in the pineal gland and subcommissural organ of the rat
5. Presence in bovine pineal extract of a peptide with chromatographic and hydroosmotic properties similar to vasotocin
6. The presence of opioidergic pinealocytes in the pineal gland of the European hamster (Cricetus cricetus): An immunocytochemical study
7. Radioimmunoassay of arginine vasopressin, oxytocin and arginine vasotocin-like material in the human pineal gland
8. The gene for the hypothalamic peptide hormone oxytocin is highly expressed in the bovine corpus luteum: Biosynthesis, structure and sequence analysis
9. Nucleotide sequence of a full length cDNA clone encoding the oxytocin-neurophysin I precursor isolated from the ovine corpus luteum
10. Oxytocin gene expression in rat uterus
11. Expression of the oxytocin gene in rat placenta
12. Vasopressin mRNA in the cerebellum and circumventricular organs: A quantitative in situ hybridization study
13. Detection and high performance liquid chromatography identification of the summer rises of vasopressin and oxytocin immunoreactivity in the rat pineal gland
14. Isolation and identification of vasopressin- and oxytocin-immunoreactive substances from bovine pineal gland. Presence of N alpha-acetyloxytocin
15. The hypothalamus is not the origin of vasopressin and oxytocin in the rat pineal gland
16. Immunohistochemical studies on the peptidergic nerve fibers in the pineal organ of the dog
17. Distribution and cellular localization of vasopressin mRNA in the ovine brain, pituitary and pineal glands
18. Biological and chromatographic characterisation of a polypeptide with pressor and oxytocic activities isolated from bovine pineal gland
19. Detection of vasopressin messenger RNA in cells within the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis by in situ hybridization histochemistry
20. Rats with physically disconnected hypothalamo-pituitary tracts no longer contain vasopressin-oxytocin gene transcripts in the posterior pituitary lobe
21. Extrahypothalamic expression of the vasopressin and oxytocin genes
22. The chemical neuroanatomy of the mammalian pineal gland: Neuropeptides
23. Presence of somatostatin-containing neuronal-like cells in the rat pineal gland
24. Annual variations of the NPYergic innervation of the pineal gland in the European hamster (Cricetus cricetus): A quantitative immunohistochemical study
25. Evidence for a direct neuronal projection from the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus to the pineal complex of the rat. an anterograde study by use of Phaseolus vulgaris leucoagglutinin (PHA-L)
26. Localization and diurnal expression of mRNA encoding the beta1-adrenoceptor in the rat pineal gland: An in situ hybridization study
27. Neurohypophyseal hormone-like peptides in the ovine pineal gland using reverse-phase liquid chromatography and radioimmunoassay
28. Vasopressinergic innervation of the bovine pineal gland. Is there a local source for arginine vasopressin?
29. Neurophysins, vasopressin and oxytocin in the bovine pineal gland
30. Pharmacological characterisation of oxytocin binding sites in the ovine pineal gland
31. Direct projections to the rat pineal gland via the stria medullaris thalami. An anterograde tracing study by use of horseradish peroxidase
32. Possible involvement of neuropeptide Y in the seasonal control of hydroxyindole-O-methyltransferase activity in the pineal gland of the european hamster (Cricetus cricetus)
33. The development and evaluation of a sensitive and specific radioimmunoassay for oxytocin in unextracted plasma
34. Distribution in the macaque pineal of nerve fibers containing immunoreactive substance P, vasopressin, oxytocin, and neurophysins
35. Recent gene conversion involving bovine vasopressin and oxytocin precursor genes suggested by nucleotide sequence
36. Vasopressin and oxytocin modulation of melatonin secretion from rat pineal glands
37. Arginine-vasopressin in anterior pituitary cells: In situ hybridization of mRNA and ultrastructural localization of immunoreactivity