The foetal pig pineal gland is richly innervated by nerve fibres containing catecholamine-synthesizing enzymes, neuropeptide Y (NPY) and C-terminal flanking peptide of NPY, but it does not secrete melatonin

Histology and Histopathology

Volumn 28, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 633-646

  Bulc, Michał ^a   Lewczuk, Bogdan ^a   Prusik, Magdalena ^a   Całka, Jaroslaw ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARMIA AND MAZURY IN OLSZTYN   (Poland)

Author keywords

Foetus; Innervation; Melatonin; Pig; Pineal gland

Indexed keywords

CATECHOLAMINE; DOPAMINE BETA MONOOXYGENASE; MELATONIN; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; NORADRENALIN; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE;

ANIMAL; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; FETUS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; IN VITRO STUDY; INNERVATION; METABOLISM; NERVE FIBER; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUE; PATHOLOGY; PINEAL BODY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; SWINE;

ANIMALS; CATECHOLAMINES; DOPAMINE BETA-HYDROXYLASE; FEMALE; FETUS; FLUORESCENT ANTIBODY TECHNIQUE; MELATONIN; MODELS, ANIMAL; NERVE FIBERS; NEUROPEPTIDE Y; NOREPINEPHRINE; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; PINEAL GLAND; PREGNANCY; SUS SCROFA; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE;

MAMMALIA; SUIDAE; SUS SCROFA DOMESTICA;

EID: 84877132334     PISSN: 02133911     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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