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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1990-7-18
pubmed:abstractText
The adrenergic innervation of somatostatin synthesizing neurons located in the anterior region of the rat hypothalamic periventricular nucleus was studied by means of a light and electron microscopic immunocytochemical double labelling technique. This region which is the source of hypophysiotrophic somatostatin immunoreactive (IR) neurons also receives a dense plexus of adrenergic axons as determined by immunocytochemistry of phenylethanolamine-N-methyltransferase (PNMT), the marker enzyme for the central adrenergic system. The simultaneous detection of PNMT and somatostatin antigens in hypothalamic sections of colchicine pretreated animals revealed a congruency in the distribution of the labelled elements and also close juxtaposition of PNMT-IR axons to somatostatin producing neurons. At the ultrastructural level, axo-somatic and axo-dendritic synaptic connections were found between PNMT-containing axons and somatostatin expressing neurons. These morphological findings support the view that the central adrenergic system might influence the production and secretion of growth hormone in the pituitary gland by a direct monosynaptic interaction with somatostatin synthesizing neurons.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0301-5564
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
94
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
13-20
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1990
pubmed:articleTitle
Innervation of somatostatin synthesizing neurons by adrenergic, phenylethanolamine-N-methyltransferase (PNMT)-immunoreactive axons in the anterior periventricular nucleus of the rat hypothalamus.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Anatomy, University Medical School, Pécs, Hungary.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S., Research Support, U.S. Gov't, Non-P.H.S., Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't