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DOI: 10.1055/s-0029-1210887
© J. A. Barth Verlag in Georg Thieme Verlag KG Stuttgart · New York
Sexually Dimorphic Level of CCK-8-Like Immunoreactive Neuronal Somata within Several Basal Forebrain Nuclei of the Rat*)
Publication History
1988
Publication Date:
16 July 2009 (online)
Summary
Using indirect immunocytochemical technique CCK-8-like immunoreactive somata could be demonstrated in different basal forebrain nuclei of adult rat (olfactory tubercle, nucleus accumbens septi, nucleus tractus diagonalis BROCA, nucleus septi medialis et lateralis, caudate-putamen-complex).
The comparison of these findings with those of rapid Golgi technique and AChE histochemistry suggested that all CCK-8 immunostaining nerve cells should be aspiny neurons and, partly at least, a coexistence of CCK-8 and acetylcholine is assumed.
In the number of neuronal somata with CCK-8-like immunoreactivity in all nuclei, especially in the caudate-putamen-complex, a distinct difference between male and female rats exist.
Key words
CCK-8 - Immunohistochemistry - Caudate-putamen-complex - Sex differences - Eat