Distinct glutamatergic and GABAergic subsets of hypothalamic pro-opiomelanocortin neurons revealed by in situ hybridization in male rats and mice

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 521, Issue 14, 2013, Pages 3287-3302

  Wittmann, Gábor ^a   Hrabovszky, Erik ^b   Lechan, Ronald M ^a,c  

^a TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF EXPERIMENTAL MEDICINE   (Hungary)

^c TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Arcuate nucleus; GABA; GAD; Glutamate; POMC; VGLUT2

Indexed keywords

GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE 67; MESSENGER RNA; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 2;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; CELL LABELING; CELL POPULATION; CELL SIZE; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; GABAERGIC TRANSMISSION; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; GENE LOCATION; GLUTAMIC ACID DECARBOXYLASE 67 GENE; IMMUNOFLUORESCENCE; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORTER 2 GENE;

ARCUATE NUCLEUS; GABA; GAD; GLUTAMATE; POMC; VGLUT2;

ANIMALS; BENZOFURANS; GAMMA-AMINOBUTYRIC ACID; GLUTAMATE DECARBOXYLASE; GLUTAMIC ACID; HYPOTHALAMUS; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; MALE; MICE; NEURONS; PRO-OPIOMELANOCORTIN; QUINOLINES; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RNA, MESSENGER; VESICULAR GLUTAMATE TRANSPORT PROTEIN 2;

EID: 84881228970     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.23350     Document Type: Article

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