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Cholecystokinin-like immunoreactivity has been demonstrated by radioimmunoassay and immunocytochemistry in the spinal cord of various mammals, in particular in nerve fibers of the superficial layers of the posterior column, but had not been detected in neuronal cell bodies. We report immunohistochemical evidence for the presence of a group of cholecystokinincontaining neuronal cell bodies in the lumbar spinal cord of the rat. This group of cells is only visualized after direct injection of colchicine into the spinal cord and is located near the central canal in the intermedio-medial nucleus of area X of Rexed.
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Vanderhaeghen, J.J., Deschepper, C., Lotstra, F. et al. Immunohistochemical evidence for cholecystokinin-like peptides in neuronal cell bodies of the rat spinal cord. Cell Tissue Res. 223, 463–467 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01258503
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