The cellular mechanisms underlying this bursting behavior have been studied in vitro, using either acute slices of
the adult hypothalamus, or organotypic cultures of neonatal hypothalamic tissue.
Not exact matches
Adult neural stem cells in the
hypothalamus — a brain region that regulates hunger, sleep, body temperature and other activities — appear to orchestrate the body's aging process, they found.
They found that corticotropin - releasing hormone (CRH), secreted by the
hypothalamus to induce secretion of stress hormones by the pituitary and the adrenal glands, also appeared around sites of inflammation in
adults.
When the researchers added GnRH to the
hypothalamuses of old mice, they saw that it promoted
adult neurogenesis.
Infusion of Brain - Derived Neurotrophic Factor into the Lateral Ventricle of the
Adult Rat Leads to New Neurons in the Parenchyma of the Striatum, Septum, Thalamus, and
Hypothalamus