Ultrastructural localization of vimentin immunoreactivity and gene expression in tanycytes and their alterations in hamsters kept under different photoperiods

Cell and Tissue Research

Volumn 314, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 251-262

  Kameda, Yoko ^a   Arai, Yuta ^a   Nishimaki, Toshiyuki ^a  

^a KITASATO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Djungarian hamster, Phodopus sungorus; Immunoelectron microscopy; Laser capture microdissection; Mediobasal hypothalamus; Primary plexus of portal vessels; Real time PCR

Indexed keywords

VIMENTIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DARKNESS; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; ENDOCRINE SYSTEM; GENE EXPRESSION; HAMSTER; HYPOPHYSIS PARS TUBERALIS; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LIGHT EXPOSURE; MALE; MICROSCOPY; NONHUMAN; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVERSE TRANSCRIPTION POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; TANYCYTE;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES, MONOCLONAL; CRICETINAE; GENE EXPRESSION; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; PHODOPUS; PHOTOPERIOD; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RNA, MESSENGER; TIME FACTORS; VIMENTIN;

ANIMALIA; CRICETINAE; PHODOPUS; PHODOPUS SUNGORUS;

EID: 0344011479     PISSN: 0302766X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00441-003-0789-y     Document Type: Article

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