Distribution of melanin-concentrating hormone neurons projecting to the medial mammillary nucleus

Neuroscience

Volumn 115, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 899-915

  Casatti, C A ^a   Elias, C F ^b   Sita, L V ^b   Frigo, L ^b,c   Furlani, V C G ^b   Bauer, J A ^b   Bittencourt, J C ^b,d  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^c UNIVERSIDADE CRUZEIRO DO SUL   (Brazil)

^d NONE   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Food intake; Lateral hypothalamic area; Mammillary body; Rostromedial zona incerta; Spatial memory; Tuberomammillary nucleus

Indexed keywords

ADENOSINE DEAMINASE; GLUTAMATE SODIUM; ISOLEUCINE; LEUKOAGGLUTININ; MELANIN CONCENTRATING HORMONE; NEUROPEPTIDE; TRUE BLUE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APPETITE; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENSITY; FOOD; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOTHESIS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INNERVATION; MALE; MEMORY; NERVE CELL; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PHASEOLUS VULGARIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; STIMULATION;

ANIMALS; AXONS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FLUORESCENT DYES; HYPOTHALAMIC AREA, LATERAL; HYPOTHALAMIC HORMONES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MAMILLARY BODIES; MELANINS; MEMORY; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PHYTOHEMAGGLUTININS; PITUITARY HORMONES; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SPACE PERCEPTION; SUBTHALAMUS;

EID: 0037049232     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4522(02)00508-0     Document Type: Article

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