Hypothalamus of the human fetus

Journal of Chemical Neuroanatomy

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 253-270

  Koutcherov, Yuri ^a   Mai, Jürgen K ^b   Paxinos, George ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Calbindin; Calretinin; FAL; GAP 43; Neurophysin; NPY; Parvalbumin; Synaptophysin

Indexed keywords

CALBINDIN; CALRETININ; GLYCOCONJUGATE; NEUROMODULIN; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; NEUROPHYSIN; PARVALBUMIN; SYNAPTOPHYSIN;

ARCUATE NUCLEUS; BRAIN REGION; CONFERENCE PAPER; FETUS; FETUS (ANATOMY); FETUS BRAIN; FETUS DEVELOPMENT; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOTHALAMUS NUCLEUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MORPHOGENESIS; NERVE CELL; POSTERIOR HYPOTHALAMUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS; THALAMUS VENTRAL NUCLEUS;

EID: 0346654141     PISSN: 08910618     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jchemneu.2003.07.002     Document Type: Conference Paper

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