Oxytocin: Who needs it?

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 133, Issue , 2001, Pages 59-66

  Insel, Thomas R ^a   Gingrich, Brenden S ^b   Young, Larry J ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESTOCIN; NEUROPEPTIDE; OXYTOCIN; OXYTOCIN ANTAGONIST; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR; VASOPRESSIN;

BRAIN; CHILDBIRTH; COGNITION; CONFERENCE PAPER; DNA FLANKING REGION; FEMALE; GENOME; KNOCKOUT MOUSE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MATERNAL CARE; MILK EJECTION; NEUROANATOMY; NONHUMAN; NULLIPARA; OLFACTORY SYSTEM; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REPRODUCTION; SHEEP; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; TRANSGENIC ANIMAL; ANIMAL; MOUSE; PREGNANCY; RAT; REVIEW;

ANIMALS; BRAIN; FEMALE; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MICE; OXYTOCIN; PREGNANCY; RATS; SHEEP;

EID: 0035225795     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(01)33005-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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