Postnatal oxytocin treatment and postnatal stroking of rats reduce blood pressure in adulthood

Autonomic Neuroscience: Basic and Clinical

Volumn 99, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 85-90

  Holst, Sarah ^a   Uvnäs Moberg, Kerstin ^a,b   Petersson, Maria ^b  

^a SWEDISH UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Massage; Oxytocin; Postnatal; Prenatal; Rat; Stress; Stroking

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN;

ABDOMEN; ADULTHOOD; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIASTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; FEMALE; HEART RATE; MALE; MASSAGE; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; STRESS; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; AGING; ANIMAL; BLOOD PRESSURE; DIASTOLE; DRUG EFFECT; FETUS; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MOTIVATION; NEWBORN; PHYSIOLOGY; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL DEVELOPMENT; PRENATAL EXPOSURE; SEXUAL DEVELOPMENT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; SYSTOLE;

AGING; ANIMAL; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; BLOOD PRESSURE; DIASTOLE; FEMALE; FETUS; HANDLING (PSYCHOLOGY); HEART RATE; MALE; OXYTOCIN; PREGNANCY; PRENATAL EXPOSURE DELAYED EFFECTS; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; STRESS; SUPPORT, NON-U.S. GOV'T; SYSTOLE; ANIMALS;

EID: 0037199814     PISSN: 15660702     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1566-0702(02)00134-0     Document Type: Article

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