Coexistence of dopamine and neurotensin in hypothalamic arcuate and periventricular neurons.
The coexistence of dopamine and neurotensin in the same neuronal perikarya in the arcuate nucleus of the rat hypothalamus was examined by combined fluorescence histochemistry and immunohistochemistry on the same tissue sections and we obtained the evidence of the coexistence of two substances. The functional significance of those two substances for the prolactin release from the anterior pituitary was also briefly discussed.
D000818:Animals; D004298:Dopamine / Q000378:metabolism*; D007124:Immunoenzyme Techniques; D008473:Median Eminence / Q000378:metabolism*; D008856:Microscopy, Fluorescence; D009474:Neurons / Q000378:metabolism; D009496:Neurotensin / Q000378:metabolism*; D010286:Paraventricular Hypothalamic Nucleus / Q000378:metabolism*; D051381:Rats
D009496:Neurotensin; D004298:Dopamine