Oxytocin causes a long-term decrease of blood pressure in female and male rats

Physiology and Behavior

Volumn 60, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 1311-1315

  Petersson, Maria ^a   Alster, Pawel ^a   Lundeberg, Thomas ^a   Uvnäs Moberg, Kerstin ^a  

^a KAROLINSKA INSTITUTE   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Blood pressure; Heart rate; Long term treatment; Oxytocin

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE; DRUG EFFECT; FEMALE; HEART RATE; INTRACEREBROVENTRICULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUBCUTANEOUS DRUG ADMINISTRATION; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE;

EID: 0342902621     PISSN: 00319384     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0031-9384(96)00261-2     Document Type: Article

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