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By use of the indirect immunofluorescence technique a small group of large somatostatin-positive neurons is described in the subependymal area of the anterior paraventricular thalamus of the male rat. Retrograde-tracing experiments suggest that they project to areas outside the blood-brain barrier.
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Ceccatelli, S., Meister, B., Hökfelt, T. et al. Immunohistochemical evidence for a magnocellular somatostatin cell group in the anterior paraventricular thalamus of the rat. Cell Tissue Res. 246, 683–685 (1986). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00215212
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