Prolactin releasing peptides modulate background firing rate and milk-ejection related burst of oxytocin cells in the supraoptic nucleus

Brain Research Bulletin

Volumn 63, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 315-319

  Honda, Kazumasa ^a   Narita, Kazumi ^a   Murata, Takuya ^a   Higuchi, Takashi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

Author keywords

Electrical activity; Lactation; Rat; Suckling stimulus

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN; PROLACTIN RELEASING FACTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN SLICE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; LACTATION; LATERAL BRAIN VENTRICLE; MILK EJECTION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUPRAOPTIC NUCLEUS; THALAMUS DORSOMEDIAL NUCLEUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMIC HORMONES; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; MILK EJECTION; NEURONS; NEUROPEPTIDES; ORGAN CULTURE TECHNIQUES; OXYTOCIN; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SUPRAOPTIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 2942625914     PISSN: 03619230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainresbull.2004.04.001     Document Type: Article

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