Title |
Inner capillary diameter of hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus of female rat increases during lactation
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Published in |
BMC Neuroscience, January 2013
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DOI | 10.1186/1471-2202-14-7 |
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Authors |
Albertina Cortés-Sol, Miguel Lara-Garcia, Mayvi Alvarado, Robyn Hudson, Pere Berbel, Pablo Pacheco |
Abstract |
The role of the endothelial cell (EC) in blood flow regulation within the central nervous system has been little studied. Here, we explored EC participation in morphological changes of the anterior hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus (PVN) microvasculature of female rats at two reproductive stages with different metabolic demand (virginity and lactation). We measured the inner capillary diameter (ICD) of 800 capillaries from either the magnocellular or parvocellular regions. The space occupied by neural (somas, dendrites and axons) and glial, but excluding vascular elements of the neurovascular compartment was also measured in 100-μm2 sample fields of both PVN subdivisions. |
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