Neurochemistry and plasticity of the median eminence and neural pituitary lobe in relation to background adaptation of xenopus laevis

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Volumn 1163, Issue , 2009, Pages 524-527

  Van Wijk, Diane C A W ^a   Roubos, Eric W ^a  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Immunocytochemistry; Magnocellular nucleus; Melanotrope cells; Mesotocin; Met enkephalin; Xenopus laevis

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESTOCIN; BRAIN DERIVED NEUROTROPHIC FACTOR; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; HYPOPHYSIS ADENYLATE CYCLASE ACTIVATING POLYPEPTIDE; MESOTOCIN; METENKEPHALIN; NEUROPEPTIDE; PROTIRELIN; UROCORTIN I;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; BRAIN; CONFERENCE PAPER; GIANT CELL; HYPOPHYSIS; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MEDIAN EMINENCE; MORPHOMETRICS; NERVE CELL; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; PLASTICITY; PREOPTIC AREA; XENOPUS LAEVIS;

XENOPUS LAEVIS;

EID: 65449149501     PISSN: 00778923     EISSN: 17496632     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2008.03666.x     Document Type: Conference Paper

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