Inhibitory effect of oxytocin on corticotrope function in humans: Are vasopressin and oxytocin ying-yang neurohormones?

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 26, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 649-655

  Legros, Jean Jacques ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Adrenals; Oxytocin; Stress; Vasopressin

Indexed keywords

CALCITONIN; CORTICOTROPIN; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; ESTROGEN; GLUCAGON; NEUROHORMONE; NEUROHYPOPHYSIS HORMONE; OXYTOCIN; PRASTERONE; VASOPRESSIN;

BREAST FEEDING; COGNITION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; CORTICOSTERONE RELEASE; DOSE RESPONSE; HOMEOSTASIS; HORMONAL REGULATION; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE INHIBITION; HUMAN; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; LACTATION; MEMORY; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; STRESS;

EID: 0034907188     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0306-4530(01)00018-X     Document Type: Article

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