Hypophysiotropic thyrotropin-releasing hormone and corticotropin-releasing hormone neurons of the rat contain vesicular glutamate transporter-2.

Glutamatergic innervation of corticotropin-releasing hormone- and thyrotropin-releasing hormone-synthesizing neurons in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus of the rat.

Glutamate plays a role in the central regulation of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) and thyroid (HPT) axes. Until the recent discovery of vesicular glutamate transporters (VGLUT1-3), there was no specific tool for the examination of the putative morphological relationship between the glutamatergic and the hypophysiotropic systems. Using antisera against VGLUT2, corticotropin-releasing ...

Elucidation of the central regulation of the hypophysiotropic corticotropin-releasing hormone- and thyrotropin-releasing hormone-synthesizing neurons in the rat Ph.D. Thesis

Elucidation of feeding-related neuronal networks involved in the regulation of the hypophysiotropic thyrotropin-releasing hormone- and corticotropin- releasing hormone-synthesizing neurons in the rat Ph.D. Thesis

Chemical neuroanatomy of the dorsal raphe nucleus and adjacent structures of the mouse brain.

Serotonin neurons play a major role in many normal and pathological brain functions. In the rat these neurons have a varying number of cotransmitters, including neuropeptides. Here we studied, with histochemical techniques, the relation between serotonin, some other small-molecule transmitters, and a number of neuropeptides in the dorsal raphe nucleus (DRN) and the adjacent ventral periaqueduct...

Neurochemical characterization of hypothalamic neurons involved in attack behavior: glutamatergic dominance and co-expression of thyrotropin-releasing hormone in a subset of glutamatergic neurons.

The electrical stimulation of a specific hypothalamic area rapidly evokes attacks in rats. Noteworthy, attack-related hypothalamic structures were identified in all species studied so far. The area has been extensively mapped in rats, and its anatomical connections have been studied in detail. However, technical difficulties precluded earlier the precise identification of the neural elements me...