Distinct populations of presympathetic-premotor neurons express orexin or melanin-concentrating hormone in the rat lateral hypothalamus

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 505, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 586-601

  Kerman, Ilan A ^a   Bernard, René ^a   Rosenthal, Devin ^a   Beals, James ^a   Akil, Huda ^a   Watson, Stanley J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Central autonomic circuits; Peptides; Pseudorabies virus; Somatomotor control; Somatomotor sympathetic integration; Transneuronal tracing

Indexed keywords

BETA GALACTOSIDASE; ENHANCED GREEN FLUORESCENT PROTEIN; MELANIN CONCENTRATING HORMONE; NEUROTRANSMITTER; OREXIN;

ADRENAL GLAND; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CEREBRAL PEDUNCLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; GASTROCNEMIUS MUSCLE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; LATERAL HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; NONHUMAN; PREMOTOR CORTEX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PSEUDORABIES HERPETOVIRUS; RAT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; VIRUS RECOMBINANT;

ANIMALS; ANTIBODIES; ANTIBODY SPECIFICITY; BRAIN MAPPING; EFFERENT PATHWAYS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; HERPESVIRUS 1, SUID; HYPOTHALAMIC AREA, LATERAL; HYPOTHALAMIC HORMONES; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MALE; MELANINS; MOTOR NEURONS; NEUROPEPTIDES; PITUITARY HORMONES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SYMPATHETIC NERVOUS SYSTEM;

EID: 38049089460     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.21511     Document Type: Article

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