Distribution of hypophysiotropic thyrotropin-releasing hormone (TRH)-synthesizing neurons in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus of the mouse

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 518, Issue 19, 2010, Pages 3948-3961

  Kádár, Andrea ^a   Sánchez, Edith ^b   Wittmann, Gábor ^a,b   Singru, Praful S ^b   Füzesi, Tamás ^a   Marsili, Alessandro ^c   Larsen, P Reed ^c   Liposits, Zsolt ^a,d   Lechan, Ronald M ^b,e   Fekete, Csaba ^a,b  

^a INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^b TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c BRIGHAM AND WOMEN S HOSPITAL   (United States)

^d Pámány Peter Catholic University   (Hungary)

^e TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Hypophysiotropic; Mouse; TRH

Indexed keywords

COCAINE; COCAINE AND AMPHETAMINE REGULATED TRANSCRIPT PEPTIDE; FLUOROGOLD; OXYTOCIN; PROTIRELIN; VASOPRESSIN;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS THYROID SYSTEM; HYPOTHYROIDISM; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; MALE; MOUSE; NEUROSECRETORY CELL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS; THYROXINE BLOOD LEVEL;

ANIMALS; HYPOTHYROIDISM; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEURONS; OXYTOCIN; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; RATS; THYROTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; VASOPRESSINS;

EID: 77955691993     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.22432     Document Type: Article

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