Synchronization of oxytocin neurons in suckled rats: Possible role of bilateral innervation of hypothalamic supraoptic nuclei by single medullary neurons

European Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 66-78

  Moos, Françoise ^a   Marganiec, Arleta ^b   Fontanaud, Pierre ^b   Guillou Duvoid, Anne ^a   Alonso, Gérard ^a  

^a CCIPE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Electrophysiology; Hypothalamus; Immunofluorescent tracers; Medulla oblongata; Neurosecretory bursts; Surgical lesion

Indexed keywords

AMINE; BIOTIN DERIVATIVE; DEXTRAN; FAST BLUE; FLUORESCEIN ISOTHIOCYANATE; OXYTOCIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN REGION; CELL SYNCHRONIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS; INCIDENCE; LACTATION; MAGNOCELLULAR NUCLEUS; MEDULLA OBLONGATA; NERVE FIBER; NERVE PROJECTION; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OPTIC CHIASM; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUCKLING; SUPRAOPTIC NUCLEUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; AMIDINES; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, SUCKLING; BIOTIN; DEXTRANS; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; FLUORESCEIN-5-ISOTHIOCYANATE; FLUORESCENT DYES; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; MICROSPHERES; NEURONS; OXYTOCIN; PROTO-ONCOGENE PROTEINS C-FOS; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SUPRAOPTIC NUCLEUS; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

EID: 3142708598     PISSN: 0953816X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.0953-816X.2004.03455.x     Document Type: Article

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