Preoptic area grafts implanted in mammillary bodies of hypogonadal mice: Patterns of GNRH neuronal projections

Experimental Neurology

Volumn 151, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 265-272

  Rogers, Marie Christine ^a   Silverman, Ann Judith ^b   Gibson, Marie J ^a  

^a MOUNT SINAI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b Columbia Coll of Phys and Surgeons ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Axonal outgrowth; GnRH; Hypogonadal; LHRH; Luteinizing hormone releasing hormone; Mammillary bodies; Median eminence; Transplantation

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN THIRD VENTRICLE; CELL TRANSPLANTATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE DELETION; HYPOGONADISM; HYPOPHYSIS GONAD SYSTEM; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; INNERVATION; MAMMILLARY BODY; MEDIAN EMINENCE; MOUSE; NERVE FIBER GROWTH; NERVE PROJECTION; NONHUMAN; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 17944397373     PISSN: 00144886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/exnr.1998.6805     Document Type: Article

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