Impaired growth hormone-releasing hormone neurons ultrastructure and peptide accumulation in the arcuate nucleus of mosaic mice with altered copper metabolism

Brain Research Bulletin

Volumn 80, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 128-132

  Gajewska, Alina ^a   Gajkowska, Barbara ^b   Pajak, Beata ^b   Styrna, Jozefa ^c   Kochman, Kazimierz ^a  

^a KIELANOWSKI INSTITUTE OF ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY AND NUTRITION   (Poland)

^b MOSSAKOWSKI MEDICAL RESEARCH CENTRE   (Poland)

^c JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Arcuate nucleus; Copper deficiency; GHRH neurons ultrastructure; Growth hormone releasing hormone; Mosaic mice

Indexed keywords

COPPER; GROWTH HORMONE RELEASING FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; APOPTOSIS; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; CELL ULTRASTRUCTURE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COPPER METABOLISM; CYTOPLASM; CYTOSKELETON; DENDRITE; ENDOPLASMIC RETICULUM; FEMALE; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; IMMUNOGOLD LABELING; MALE; MOSAICISM; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SYNAPSE;

ANIMALS; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; COPPER; GENETIC DISEASES, X-LINKED; GROWTH HORMONE-RELEASING HORMONE; MALE; MICE; MICE, TRANSGENIC; MICROSCOPY, IMMUNOELECTRON; MUTATION; NEURONS;

EID: 68849127215     PISSN: 03619230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2009.04.002     Document Type: Article

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