Noradrenergic axon terminals contact gastric preautonomic neurons in the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus in rats

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 501, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 608-618

  Balcita Pedicino, J J ^a   Rinaman, Linda ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

Electron microscopy; Interoceptive; Pseudorabies virus; Transneuronal tracing; Ultrastructure; Viscerosensory

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE BETA MONOOXYGENASE; PEROXIDASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOGOLD LABELING; MALE; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; NORADRENERGIC NERVE; PERIKARYON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDORABIES HERPETOVIRUS; RAT; STOMACH WALL; SYNAPSE; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS; ULTRASTRUCTURE;

ANIMALS; DOPAMINE BETA-HYDROXYLASE; HERPESVIRUS 1, SUID; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; NEURONS; NOREPINEPHRINE; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; PRESYNAPTIC TERMINALS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; STOMACH;

EID: 34247188124     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.21267     Document Type: Article

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