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The developmental coexpression of galanin-like immunoreactivity with the catecholamine-synthesizing enzyme tyrosine hydroxylase (TH) was studied in the avian embryo sympathoadrenal system using double-labeling immunocytochemistry. Galanin-like immunoreactivity is expressed by various catecholaminergic cell populations, namely sympathoblasts, chromaffin and small intensely fluorescent (SIF) cells, but not by principal neurons of the paravertebral sympathetic ganglia. Both galanin and somatostatin immunoreactivities are coexpressed in the adrenal and sympathetic ganglion primordia by the neural precursors, but the subsequent expression pattern of both peptides differs. Our results support the hypothesis that early sympathoblasts express a large repertoire of neuroactive substances and that the expression of these becomes restricted during further development as the sympathoblasts become principal neurons.
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Received: 11 April 1998 / Accepted: 6 August 1998
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García-Arrarás, J., Torres-Avillán, I. & García Arrarás, J. Developmental expression of galanin-like immunoreactivity by members of the avian sympathoadrenal cell lineage. Cell Tissue Res 295, 33–41 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/s004410051210
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s004410051210