The hypothalamic arcuate nucleus-median eminence complex: Immunohistochemistry of transmitters, peptides and DARPP-32 with special reference to coexistence in dopamine neurons

Brain Research Reviews - Tập 11 Số 2 - Trang 97-155 - 1986
Barry J. Everitt1, Björn Meister2, Tomas Hökfelt2, T. Melander2, Lars Terenius3, Åke Rökaeus4, Elvar Theodorsson4, G.J. Dockray5, J.A. Edwardson6, A. Claudio Cuello7, Robert Elde8, Menek Goldstein9, Hugh C. Hemmings10, Charles C. Ouimet10, Ivar Walaas10, Paul Greengard10, Wylie Vale11, Eckard Weber12, Jang‐Yen Wu13, Kwen‐Jen Chang14
1Department of Anatomy, University of Cambridge U.K.
2Department of Histology, Karolinska Institutet, StockholmSweden
3Department of Pharmacology, University of Uppsala, Sweden
4Department of Pharmacology, Karolinska Institutet, StockholmSweden
5Department of Physiology, University of Liverpool, U.K.
6MRC Neuroendocrinology Unit, University of Newcastle, NewcastleU.K.
7Department of Pharmacology and Therapeutics, MRC Biotechnology Development Grant, McGill University, Quebec, Que.Canada
8Department of Anatomy, University of Minnesota, MNUSA
9Department of Psychiatry, New York University, New York, NYUSA
10Laboratory of Molecular and Cellular Neuroscience, Rockefeller University, New York, NYUSA
11The Salk Institute, San Diego, CAUSA
12Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Science, Stanford University School of Medicine, Palo Alto, CAUSA
13Department of Physiology, Milton S. Hershey Medical Center, Pennsylvania State University, Hershey, PA 17033, U.S.A.
14Wellcome Research Laboratories, Research Triangle Park, NCU.S.A.

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