Dendritic peptide release and peptide-dependent behaviours

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 126-136

  Ludwig, Mike ^a   Leng, Gareth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NEUROPEPTIDE; NEUROTRANSMITTER; OXYTOCIN; OXYTOCIN ANTAGONIST; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR; VASOPRESSIN RECEPTOR;

AUTOREGULATION; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHEMICAL BINDING; DENDRITIC CELL; HUMAN; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN FUNCTION; REVIEW; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

ANIMALS; AUTOCRINE COMMUNICATION; DENDRITES; MODELS, NEUROLOGICAL; NEURONS; NEUROPEPTIDES; OXYTOCIN; TIME FACTORS; VASOPRESSINS;

EID: 31444453954     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn1845     Document Type: Review

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