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C-PON containing neurons in the rat striatum are also positive for NADPH-diaphorase activity. A light microscopic
R M Villalba1, R Martínez-Murillo, I Blasco
1Unidad de Neuroanatomía, Instituto Cajal, C.S.I.C., Madrid, Spain.
Brain Research
|October 18, 1988
Abstract:
The indirect immunofluorescence technique to detect endogenous C-flanking peptide of neuropeptide Y (NPY), C-PON, in combination with NADPH-diaphorase (NADPH-d) histochemistry, were applied to the same sections to establish whether C-PON containing cell bodies in the rat striatum can be labelled by their content of NADPH-diaphorase activity. NADPH-diaphorase activity proved to be a reliable marker for these positive C-PON neurons. Our results suggest that, in the rat striatum, C-PON, SOM and NPY co-exist in the same cells.