Amygdaloid axons innervate melanin-concentrating hormone- and orexin-containing neurons in the mouse lateral hypothalamus

Brain Research

Volumn 1278, Issue , 2009, Pages 66-74

  Nakamura, Sawako ^a   Tsumori, Toshiko ^a   Yokota, Shigefumi ^a   Oka, Tatsuro ^a   Yasui, Yukihiko ^a  

^a SHIMANE UNIVERSITY FACULTY OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Central amygdaloid nucleus; GABAergic; Lateral hypothalamic area; Melanin concentrating hormone; Mouse; Orexin

Indexed keywords

4 AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; MELANIN CONCENTRATING HORMONE; OREXIN;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; DENDRITE; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; INNERVATION; MOUSE; NERVE ENDING; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AMYGDALA; ANIMALS; AXONS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMIC HORMONES; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INTRACELLULAR SIGNALING PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; MELANINS; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; MICROSCOPY, ELECTRON, TRANSMISSION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEUROPEPTIDES; PITUITARY HORMONES;

EID: 67349261558     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2009.04.049     Document Type: Article

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