Arginine vasopressin and vasoactive intestinal polypeptide fibers make appositions with gonadotropin-releasing hormone and estrogen receptor cells in the diurnal rodent Arvicanthis niloticus

Brain Research

Volumn 1049, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 156-164

  Mahoney, Megan M ^a   Smale, Laura ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Arginine vasopressin; Arvicanthis; Diurnal; Estrogen receptor; Gonadotropin releasing hormone; Vasoactive intestinal polypeptide

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESSIN; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; GONADORELIN; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL POLYPEPTIDE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEMALE; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; RAT; RODENT;

ANIMALS; ARGININE VASOPRESSIN; CELL COUNT; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MURIDAE; NERVE FIBERS; NEURONS; RATS; RECEPTORS, ESTROGEN; SUPRACHIASMATIC NUCLEUS; VASOACTIVE INTESTINAL PEPTIDE;

EID: 23044479758     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2005.04.071     Document Type: Article

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