Acta histochemica et cytochemica 47(5) 239-45 2014年 [査読有り]
The anterior pituitary gland is organized tissue comprising hormone-producing cells and folliculostellate (FS) cells. FS cells interconnect to form a meshwork, and their cytoplasmic processes are anchored by a basement membrane containing laminin....
Neuropeptide Y (NPY) is a potent orexigenic neuropeptide implicated in appetite regulation in mammals. However, except for teleost fish such as the goldfish and zebrafish, the involvement of NPY in the regulation of feeding in non-mammalian verteb...
JOURNAL OF NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY 25(3) 312-321 2013年3月 [査読有り]
The present study aimed to investigate the distribution of the octadecaneuropeptide (ODN) in the goldfish brain and to look for a possible effect of ODN on somatolactin (SL) release from pituitary cells. A discrete population of ODN-immunoreactive...
OBESITY RESEARCH & CLINICAL PRACTICE 7(1) E1-E7 2013年1月 [査読有り]
Food intake is a fundamental for animals to surviving and keeping offspring. The hypothalamic region of the brain and the brain stem in vertebrates are a center that plays an important role in the control of feeding and its related behaviors inclu...