GnRH-immunoreactive centrifugal visual fibers in the Nile crocodile (Crocodylus niloticus)

Brain Research

Volumn 1052, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 112-117

  Médina, Monique ^a,d   Repérant, Jacques ^a,b   Miceli, Dom ^a,b   Ward, Roger ^a,b   Arckens, Lutgarde ^c  

^a MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À TROIS RIVIÈRES   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Chicken GnRH I; Reptile; Retina; Retinopetal pathway; Septo preoptic area; Terminal nerve

Indexed keywords

GONADORELIN;

ALLIGATOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTIBODY LABELING; ARTICLE; CELL LABELING; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; RETINA CELL; RETROGRADE NERVE FIBER TRANSPORT; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ALLIGATORS AND CROCODILES; ANIMALS; FMRFAMIDE; GONADOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; NERVE FIBERS; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 23644457826     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2005.06.012     Document Type: Article

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