title: Neuropeptide Y innervation of ACTH-immunoreactive neurons in the arcuate nucleus of rats: a correlated light and electron microscopic double immunolabeling study.
abstract: A fairly high number of neuropeptide Y (NPY) and adrenocorticotropic hormone (ACTH) immunoreactive (ir) neuronal perikarya and dense networks of NPY-ir fibers are present in the hypothalamic arcuate nucleus of rats. Light and electron microscopic double immunolabeling techniques were used to demonstrate morphological connections between NPY-ir nerve fibers and ACTH-ir neurons here. Silver-gold intensified diaminobenzidine (DAB) labeling of perikaryal-dendritic immunoreactivity followed by a second, non-intensified DAB chromogen labeling of immunoreactive nerve terminals was used and recommended in the above sequence as a method of choice for the detection of synaptic contacts with double-labeling technique. By this way, NPY-immunoreactivity was localized in axons and axonal terminals forming a variety of conventional synaptic contacts with ACTH-ir neuronal perikarya and dendrites in the arcuate nucleus.
authors.affiliation: First Department of Anatomy, Semmelweis University Medical School, Budapest, Hungary.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Csiffáry
authors.forename: T J
authors.initials: TJ
authors.lastname: Görcs
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Palkovits
mesh_terms: D000324:Adrenocorticotropic Hormone / Q000378:metabolism*; D000818:Animals; D001111:Arcuate Nucleus of Hypothalamus / Q000166:cytology / Q000378:metabolism*; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D008297:Male; D008854:Microscopy, Electron; D009478:Neuropeptide Y / Q000378:metabolism*; D051381:Rats; D011919:Rats, Inbred Strains
chemical_list: D009478:Neuropeptide Y; D000324:Adrenocorticotropic Hormone