Kappa-opioid restraint of oxytocin secretion: Plasticity through pregnancy

Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 378-383

  Leng, Gareth ^a   Dye, Sandra ^b   Bicknell, R John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b BABRAHAM INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cholecystokinin; Neurohypophysis; Opioid peptides; Oxytocin; Pregnancy

Indexed keywords

CHOLECYSTOKININ; NALOXONE; OXYTOCIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; FEMALE; HYPOPHYSIS; NERVE CELL PLASTICITY; NONHUMAN; OXYTOCIN RELEASE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT;

ANIMALS; BASAL METABOLISM; CHOLECYSTOKININ; FEMALE; NALOXONE; NALTREXONE; OXYTOCIN; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; RECEPTORS, OPIOID, KAPPA; RECEPTORS, OPIOID, MU; SECRETORY RATE;

EID: 0030808784     PISSN: 00283835     EISSN: 14230194     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000127263     Document Type: Article

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