Molecular neuroanatomy and chemoarchitecture of the neurosecretory preoptic-hypothalamic area in zebrafish larvae

Journal of Comparative Neurology

Volumn 522, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 1542-1564

  Herget, Ulrich ^a,b   Wolf, Andrea ^a,d   Wullimann, Mario F ^c   Ryu, Soojin ^a  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MEDICAL RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d SANOFI AVENTIS DEUTSCHLAND GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Hypothalamus; Neuroendocrine system; Neurosecretory preoptic area; Paraventricular nucleus; Preoptic region; Zebrafish

Indexed keywords

ARX PROTEIN; DLX5A PROTEIN; ISL1 PROTEIN; NEUROPEPTIDE; OTP PROTEIN; OTPA PROTEIN; OTPB PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; ZEBRAFISH PROTEIN;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; BRAIN REGION; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYTOARCHITECTURE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; GENE FUNCTION; GENE IDENTIFICATION; HYPOTHALAMUS; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOLECULAR NEUROANATOMY; NERVE FIBER; NEUROANATOMY; NEUROPEPTIDE GENE; NEUROSECRETION; NEUROSECRETORY CELL; NONHUMAN; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DOMAIN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; ZEBRA FISH; AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANATOMY AND HISTOLOGY; ANIMAL; CONFOCAL MICROSCOPY; FEMALE; GENETICS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LARVA; METABOLISM; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING;

AMINO ACID SEQUENCE; ANIMALS; FEMALE; IMAGING, THREE-DIMENSIONAL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN SITU HYBRIDIZATION; LARVA; MICROSCOPY, CONFOCAL; NEUROPEPTIDES; NEUROSECRETORY SYSTEMS; PREOPTIC AREA; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; ZEBRAFISH; ZEBRAFISH PROTEINS;

EID: 84894082248     PISSN: 00219967     EISSN: 10969861     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/cne.23480     Document Type: Article

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