Intercellular communication within the rat anterior pituitary: Immunohistochemical study on the relationship between the hypothalamus, agranular cells and GnRH neurons in the pars tuberalis and anterior pituitary gland

Acta Histochemica et Cytochemica

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 227-239

  Kurita, Jun ^a   Shirasawa, Nobuyuki ^b   Mabuchi, Yoshio ^a   Sakuma, Eisuke ^a   Sato, Yumi ^a   Sato, Goro ^a   Herbert, Damon C ^c   Soji, Tsuyoshi ^a  

^a NAGOYA CITY UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICAL SCIENCES   (Japan)

^b YAMAGATA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER AT SAN ANTONIO   (United States)

Author keywords

Anterior pituitary; Folliculo stellate cell; LH RH; LHRH receptor; Rat

Indexed keywords

ANTIBODY; EOSIN; GONADORELIN; GONADORELIN RECEPTOR; HEMATOXYLIN; PROTEIN S 100;

ADENOHYPOPHYSIS; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CAPILLARY; CELL COMMUNICATION; DIENCEPHALON; ELECTRON MICROSCOPY; EPITHELIUM; HORMONE RELEASE; HYPOPHYSIS PARS TUBERALIS; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INFUNDIBULUM; MALE; MEDIAN EMINENCE; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; OPTIC CHIASM; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 7944228999     PISSN: 00445991     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1267/ahc.37.227     Document Type: Article

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