Heterogeneous occurrence of aqu ...
Aquaporins are selective water channel proteins critical in volume homeostasis. In the CNS AQP4 predominates, localized mainly in the glia limitans, ...
Immunocytochemical study of gly ...
The expression of glycine receptors in the retina of clawed frog, Xenopus laevis was studied immunocytochemically. Glycine receptors (GlyRs), as rev ...
Tyrosine hydroxylase immunoreac ...
We analyzed the distribution of tyrosine hydroxylase immunoreactivity in the central nervous zones involved in the processing of visual information ...
Promoter of the heat shock test ...
The Hsp70.2/Hst70 gene is a unique member of the 70 kDa heat shock proteins multigene family whose activity is regulated developmentally; in adult m ...
Fine ultrastructure of chromaff ...
Observation by transmission electron microscopy, coupled with morphometric analysis and estimation procedure, revealed unique ultrastructural featur ...
Myogenic progenitor cells in th ...
The transcription factors Pax3 and Pax7 are important regulators of myogenic cell fate, as demonstrated by genetic manipulations in the mouse embryo ...
Expression and regulation of th ...
LIM-homeodomain (Lhx) genes constitute a gene family that plays critical roles in the control of pattern formation and cell type specification. We h ...
Lena Koh Æ Andrei Zakharov Æ Gu ...
The textbook view that cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) absorption occurs mainly through the arachnoid granulations and villi is being challenged by quanti ...
The urethral striated sphincter ...
This study reports the morphology of the urethral sphincter in adult male rats, mainly the histological aspects, the features of the endplates, and ...
Myogenin (Myf4) upregulation in ...
Congenital myopathies often have an unclear aetiology. Here, we studied a novel case of a severe congenital myopathy with a failure of myotube forma ...
Two endothelial cell lines deri ...
Somites are sequentially formed, metameric units of the paraxial mesoderm of vertebrate embryos. They are the most obvious correlative of the segmen ...
Myosin-based contraction is not ...
During the initial phase of cardiac looping, known as c-looping, the heart bends and twists into a cshaped tube with the convex outer curvature norm ...
Expression of the avian gene cN ...
Genetic information that directs a cell during different phases of embryogenesis is locked up in the genome. Therein is contained the road map for g ...
Regulation of scapula developme ...
The scapula is a component of the shoulder girdle. Its structure has changed greatly during evolution. For example, in humans it is a large quite fl ...
The perineuronal glial tissue o ...
The volumes of the nerve cell bodies and those of the enveloping satellite cell sheaths from spinal ganglia were determined by morphometric methods ...
Fos immunoreactivity in some lo ...
In this study, we explore Fos expression (a measure of cell activity) in three nuclei associated with locomotion, namely the zona incerta, pedunculo ...
The zebrafish mutation m865 aff ...
The zebrafish mutation m865 was isolated during a large-scale mutagenesis screen aimed at identifying genes involved in the development and maintena ...
Expression of the neurotrophin ...
Neurotrophins acting through Trk signaltransducing receptors play essential roles in the nervous system, and probably in some non-neuronal tissues. ...
Effects of age on sympathetic i ...
Loss of myenteric neurons with age is well documented, however little is known about age-related changes of the sympathetic innervation of the myent ...
Expression pattern of BMPs duri ...
In vertebrates, BMPs (bone morphogenic proteins) play critical roles in establishing the basic embryonic body plan and are involved in the developme ...
Brain stem afferent connections ...
A recently revealed important function of the amygdala (Am) is that it acts as the brain’s ‘‘lighthouse’’, which constantly monitors the environment ...
Non-neuronal acetylcholine and ...
Certain female reproductive tissues are known to express the non-neuronal cholinergic system. Using different experimental approaches, we tested the ...
Glial cytoarchitecture in the c ...
The distribution of the intermediate filament molecular markers, glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP) and vimentin, has been studied in the centra ...
The postnatal development of th ...
The number of axons in the optic nerve of the ovoviviparous reptile Vipera aspis was estimated from electron micrographs taken during the first 5 we ...
Histology of the digestive trac ...
We investigated the histology and histochemistry (of carbohydrates and proteins) of the digestive tract of the freshwater stingray Himantura signifi ...