Intimate associations between the neuropeptide Y system and the galanin-immunoreactive neurons in the human diencephalon

Neuroscience

Volumn 170, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 839-845

  Merchenthaler, I ^a   Rotoli, G ^b   Grignol, G ^b   Dudas, B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b LAKE ERIE COLLEGE OF OSTEOPATHIC MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Diencephalon; Galanin; Hypothalamo hypophyseal axis; Hypothalamus; Immunohistochemistry; NPY

Indexed keywords

GALANIN; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; NEUROPEPTIDE Y RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; BRAIN REGION; CELL SHAPE; CELL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIENCEPHALON; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOTHALAMUS; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOCYTOCHEMISTRY; MICROSCOPY; NERVE ENDING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN SECRETION; SYNAPSE;

AGED; DIENCEPHALON; FEMALE; GALANIN; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEURONS; NEUROPEPTIDE Y;

EID: 80053116762     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2010.07.003     Document Type: Article

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