Vasoactive intestinal polypeptide (VIP) in the medulla oblongata of the guinea pig.
Using the peroxidase-antiperoxidase (PAP) technique brains of colchicine-treated guinea pigs were investigated for the occurrence of vasoactive intestinal polypeptide-like immunoreactive (VIP-IR) neurons. VIP-IR perikarya were found not only in previously documented areas of the cortex, hypothalamus and substantia grisea centralis, but also in the nucleus nervi vagi, nucleus solitarius and the formatio reticularis.
D000818:Animals; D001923:Brain Chemistry; D003078:Colchicine; D005768:Gastrointestinal Hormones / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D006168:Guinea Pigs; D007124:Immunoenzyme Techniques; D008526:Medulla Oblongata / Q000032:analysis*; D013116:Spinal Cord / Q000032:analysis; D014660:Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide / Q000302:isolation & purification*
D005768:Gastrointestinal Hormones; D014660:Vasoactive Intestinal Peptide; D003078:Colchicine