Whole-brain mapping of the direct inputs and axonal projections of POMC and AgRP neurons

Frontiers in Neuroanatomy

Volumn 9, Issue MAR, 2015, Pages

  Wang, Daqing ^a,b   He, Xiaobing ^c,d   Zhao, Zhe ^b   Feng, Qiru ^b   Lin, Rui ^b   Sun, Yue ^b   Ding, Ting ^c   Xu, Fuqiang ^c,d,e   Luo, Minmin ^a,b   Zhan, Cheng ^b  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES   (China)

^c Wuhan National Laboratory for Optoelectronics   (China)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^e HUAZHONG UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Adeno associated virus; Arcuate nucleus; Nucleus tractus solitarius; POMC neurons; Rabies virus; Transsynaptic tracing

Indexed keywords

AGOUTI RELATED PEPTIDE; PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; PROOPIOMELANOCORTIN; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARCUATE NUCLEUS; ARTICLE; BRAIN MAPPING; CELL DENSITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; GENE EXPRESSION; HISTOLOGY; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; VIRUS REPLICATION;

EID: 84927774781     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625129     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnana.2015.00040     Document Type: Article

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