Sexually dimorphic immunoreactivity of galanin and colocalization with arginine vasotocin in the chicken brain (Gallus gallus domesticus)

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 499, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 828-839

  Klein, Sabine ^a   Jurkevich, Aleksandr ^a,b   Grossmann, Roland ^a  

^a INSTITUT FÜR TIERZUCHT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

BSTM; Hypothalamo neurohypophysial system; PVN; SON

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESTOCIN; GALANIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CHICKEN; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEX DIFFERENCE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; STRIA TERMINALIS; SUPRAOPTIC NUCLEUS; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; BRAIN CHEMISTRY; CHICKENS; COLCHICINE; FEMALE; GALANIN; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; SEPTAL NUCLEI; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SUPRAOPTIC NUCLEUS; VASOTOCIN;

EID: 33750921251     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.21132     Document Type: Article

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