Oxytocin: An old hormone for new avenues

Clinical Neuropsychiatry

Volumn 3, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 302-321

  Marazziti, Donatella ^a   Bani, Annalisa ^a   Casamassima, Francesco ^a   Catena, Mario ^a   Consoli, Giorgio ^a   Gesi, Camilla ^a   Iovieno, Nadia ^a   Massei, Guido Jacopo ^a   Muti, Matteo ^a   Ravani, Laura ^a   Romano, Anna ^a   Roncaglia, Isabella ^a   Scarpellini, Pietro ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PISA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Oxytocin; Physiology; Psychiatric disorders; Psychopathology

Indexed keywords

ATRIAL NATRIURETIC FACTOR; CLOMIPRAMINE; COCAINE; DEXAMETHASONE; GALANIN; GLUCAGON; GLUCOSE; NALOXONE; NEUROLEPTIC AGENT; NITRIC OXIDE; OPIATE; OXYTOCIN; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR; PLACEBO; PROLYL ENDOPEPTIDASE; SODIUM; VASOPRESSIN;

ADIPOCYTE; ADRENAL GLAND; AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANALGESIA; ANALGESIC ACTIVITY; ANTIDIURESIS; ANTIPYRETIC ACTIVITY; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; AUTISM; BIRTH; CANCER PAIN; CHEMICAL STRUCTURE; COMPULSION; DEPRESSION; DRUG CEREBROSPINAL FLUID LEVEL; DRUG DEPENDENCE; DRUG MEGADOSE; EATING DISORDER; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; GLUCAGON RELEASE; HORMONE ACTION; HORMONE BLOOD LEVEL; HORMONE RELEASE; HORMONE SYNTHESIS; HUMAN; HYPOGLYCEMIA; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; KIDNEY; KIDNEY TUBULE ABSORPTION; LACTATION; LEARNING; LOW BACK PAIN; MEAN ARTERIAL PRESSURE; MEDLINE; MEMORY; MENTAL DISEASE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; OBSESSIVE COMPULSIVE DISORDER; OSMOREGULATION; OSTEOBLAST; PANCREAS; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PRADER WILLI SYNDROME; PREGNANCY; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; SATIETY; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEXUAL AROUSAL; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SEXUAL FUNCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL; STRESS; THERMOREGULATION; THYMUS; TRANQUILIZING ACTIVITY;

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