Glial and neuronal localization of neuronal nitric oxide synthase immunoreactivity in the median eminence of female rats

Brain Research

Volumn 789, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 322-326

  Kawakami, Shin Ichi ^a   Ichikawa, Masumi ^b   Yokosuka, Makoto ^b   Tsukamura, Hiroko ^a   Maeda, Kei Ichiro ^a  

^a NAGOYA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b TOKYO METROPOLITAN INSTITUTE OF MEDICAL SCIENCE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; Median eminence; Neuronal nitric oxide synthase; Rat

Indexed keywords

NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; GLIA CELL; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NEUROSECRETION; NONHUMAN; POSTSYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; IMMUNOLOGIC TECHNIQUES; MEDIAN EMINENCE; NEUROGLIA; NEURONS; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE; NITRIC OXIDE SYNTHASE TYPE I; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; TISSUE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 18844482459     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0006-8993(97)01561-8     Document Type: Article

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