Neural mechanisms underlying the milk ejection burst and reflex

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 170, Issue , 2008, Pages 155-166

  Hatton, Glenn I ^a   Wang, Yu Feng ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

astroglia; brain slices; electrophysiology; G protein coupled receptors; intracellular signalling cascades; oxytocin; oxytocin receptors; supraoptic nucleus

Indexed keywords

ALPHA 1 ADRENERGIC RECEPTOR; ARGIPRESSIN; G PROTEIN COUPLED RECEPTOR; NORADRENALIN; OXYTOCIN; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR;

ACTION POTENTIAL; ASTROCYTE; BRAIN SLICE; BREAST; CELL ACTIVITY; CELL INTERACTION; CELL KINETICS; CELLULAR DISTRIBUTION; CHANNEL GATING; DENDRITE; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVOKED RESPONSE; EXCITATION; EXCITATORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; EXTRACELLULAR CALCIUM; EXTRACELLULAR SPACE; HYPOTHALAMUS; IN VITRO STUDY; IN VIVO STUDY; INHIBITORY POSTSYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; LACTATION; MILK EJECTION; MOLECULAR DYNAMICS; MOLECULAR INTERACTION; NEUROHYPOPHYSIS; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PATCH CLAMP; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; REGULATORY MECHANISM; REVIEW; SUCKLING; SUPRAOPTIC NUCLEUS; SYNAPTIC MEMBRANE; SYNAPTIC POTENTIAL; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, SUCKLING; ASTROCYTES; AXONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INFANT; MAMMARY GLANDS, ANIMAL; MATERNAL BEHAVIOR; MILK; MODELS, ANIMAL; NEURONS; NOREPINEPHRINE; OXYTOCIN; PARTURITION; RECEPTORS, OXYTOCIN; REFLEX; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SUPRAOPTIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 47549091720     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(08)00414-7     Document Type: Review

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