α-Melanocyte-Stimulating Hormone Stimulates Oxytocin Release from the Dendrites of Hypothalamic Neurons while Inhibiting Oxytocin Release from Their Terminals in the Neurohypophysis

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 23, Issue 32, 2003, Pages 10351-10358

  Sabatier, Nancy ^a   Caquineau, Céline ^a   Dayanithi, Govindan ^b   Bull, Philip ^a   Douglas, Alison J ^a   Guan, Xiao Ming M ^c   Jiang, Michael ^c   Van Der Ploeg, Lex ^c   Leng, Gareth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b INSERM   (France)

^c MERCK RESEARCH LABORATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Dendritic release; Electrical activity; Fos expression; Oxytocin; Supraoptic nucleus; Ca2+ i; melanocyte stimulating hormone

Indexed keywords

ALPHA INTERMEDIN; CALCIUM; OXYTOCIN; PROTEIN FOS;

ARTICLE; CALCIUM CELL LEVEL; CALCIUM MOBILIZATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DENDRITE; ELECTRIC ACTIVITY; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EXTRACELLULAR CALCIUM; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMUS; NERVE CONDUCTION; NEUROHYPOPHYSIS; NONHUMAN; OXYTOCIN RELEASE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; REGULATORY MECHANISM; SUPRAOPTIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 0344393018     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.23-32-10351.2003     Document Type: Article

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