Cyto- and chemoarchitecture of the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus in the C57BL/6J male mouse: A study of immunostaining and multiple fluorescent tract tracing

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 520, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 6-33

  Biag, Jonathan ^a   Huang, Yi ^a   Gou, Lin ^a   Hintiryan, Houri ^a   Askarinam, Asal ^a   Hahn, Joel D ^b   Toga, Arthur W ^a   Dong, Hong Wei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Autonomic; Feeding; Neural tract tracing; Neuroendocrine; Stress

Indexed keywords

ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CELL STRUCTURE; CHEMOARCHITECTURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOARCHITECTURE; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; FLUORESCENCE IMAGING; HYPOTHALAMIC PARAVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MAGNOCELLULAR NUCLEUS; MALE; MOUSE; NERVE CELL; NEUROANATOMICAL TRACT TRACING; NEUROIMAGING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ANIMALS; HYPOTHALAMIC HORMONES; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; NEUROSECRETORY SYSTEMS; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; RATS; STAINING AND LABELING;

EID: 81255177723     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.22698     Document Type: Article

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