Central oxytocin potentiates excitatory responses of oxytocin neurones to stimulation of the dorsomedial hypothalamic nucleus in the suckled rat

Neuroscience Letters

Volumn 317, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 47-49

  Cosgrave, A S ^a   Wakerley, J B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dorsomedial nucleus; Excitatory responses; Intracerebroventricular oxytocin; Milk ejection reflex; Oxytocin neurones; Potentiation

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN DEPTH STIMULATION; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS NUCLEUS; LACTATION; LONG TERM POTENTIATION; MILK EJECTION; NERVE CONDUCTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REFLEX; SPIKE WAVE; SUCKING; SUPRAOPTIC NUCLEUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; DORSOMEDIAL HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; ELECTRIC STIMULATION; FEMALE; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; LACTATION; NEURAL INHIBITION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; OXYTOCIN; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; REACTION TIME; SUPRAOPTIC NUCLEUS; SYNAPTIC TRANSMISSION;

EID: 0037016516     PISSN: 03043940     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0304-3940(01)02402-8     Document Type: Article

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