Immunocytochemical localization and ontogenic development of melanin-concentrating hormone in the brain of a pleuronectiform fish, the barfin flounder

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 311, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 71-77

  Amano, Masafumi ^a   Takahashi, Akiyoshi ^a   Oka, Yoshitaka ^b   Yamanome, Takeshi ^c   Kawauchi, Hiroshi ^a   Yamamori, Kunio ^a  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c IWATE FISHERIES TECHNOLOGY CENTER   (Japan)

Author keywords

Barfin flounder; Immunocytochemistry; Melanin concentrating hormone; Ontogeny; Verasper moseri (Teleostei)

Indexed keywords

MELANIN CONCENTRATING HORMONE; HYPOPHYSIS HORMONE; HYPOTHALAMUS HORMONE; MELANIN; MELANIN-CONCENTRATING HORMONE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; BRAIN; DEVELOPMENT; FLOUNDER; GIANT NERVE CELL; HATCHING; HYPOPHYSIS; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; ONTOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; AGE; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CYTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NERVE FIBER; NERVE TRACT; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT;

ANIMALIA; ONCORHYNCHUS KETA; PLEURONECTIFORMES; PLEURONECTOIDEI; TELEOSTEI; VERASPER MOSERI;

AGE FACTORS; ANIMALS; FLOUNDER; HYPOTHALAMIC HORMONES; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MELANINS; NERVE FIBERS; NEURAL PATHWAYS; PITUITARY GLAND; PITUITARY HORMONES;

EID: 0037214131     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00441-002-0660-6     Document Type: Article

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