Localization of NK1 and NK3 receptors in guinea-pig brain

Title: Localization of NK1 and NK3 receptors in guinea-pig brain
Creator: Yip, Jane; Chahl, Loris A.
Relation: Regulatory Peptides Vol. 98, p. 55-62
Publisher Link: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/S0167-0115(00)00228-7
Publisher: Elsevier Science B.V.
Resource Type: journal article
Date: 2001
Description: In this study the localizations of tachykinin neurokinin-1 (NK1) and neurokinin-3 (NK3) receptors in the guinea-pig brain are described. In agreement with studies in rat and human brain, the neurons that exhibited the most marked NK1 receptor immunoreactivity were found in the dorsomedial caudate putamen. NK1 receptors were also widely distributed in diencephalic structures and in the mid and hind brain. NK3 receptors were distributed in both superficial and deep layers of the cortex and many appeared to be located on cells with astrocyte-like morphology in the glia limitans. In several regions including the thalamus, hypothalamus, amygdala, periaqueductal gray, substantia nigra and area postrema, both NK1 and NK3 immunoreactivity were found. The present study revealed that tachykinin receptors are widely distributed in the guinea-pig central nervous system.
Subject: tachykinin receptors; central nervous system; guinea-pig; neurokinin-1 (NK1); neurokinin-3 (NK3)
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/26743
Identifier: uon:1086
Identifier: ISSN:0167-0115
Language: eng
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