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Immunocytochemical Identification of Enkephalinergic Neurons in the Hypothalamic Magnocellular Preoptic Nucleus of the Goldfish, Carassius Auratus

Overview
Journal Cell Tissue Res
Specialties Anatomy & Histology
Cell Biology
Date 1979 Aug 3
PMID 387250
Citations 12
Authors
T A Reaves Jr
J N HAYWARD
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Abstract

Our immunocytochemical investigation of the magnocellular neuroendocrine system in the goldfish hypothalamus reveals enkephalin (ENK)-containing neurons interspersed among the vasotocin (VT)- and isotocin (IT)-containing neurons of the preoptic nucleus. The perikarya of the ENK, VT, and IT neurons do not show distinct morphological differences at the level of light microscopy and are not located preferentially within the nucleus. Separate ENK, VT and IT fibers course laterally and ventrally through the hypothalamus as they descend toward the pituitary gland. All three fiber types form terminals around blood vessels in the neurohypophysis.

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