Keeping oxytocin neurons under control during stress in pregnancy

Progress in Brain Research

Volumn 170, Issue , 2008, Pages 365-377

  Brunton, Paula J ^a   Russell, John A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

allopregnanolone; endogenous opioids; interleukin 1 ; noradrenaline; nucleus tractus solitarii; paraventricular nucleus; supraoptic nucleus

Indexed keywords

3ALPHA HYDROXY 5ALPHA PREGNAN 20 ONE; ENDORPHIN; NEUROHYPOPHYSIS HORMONE; NEUROSTEROID; OXYTOCIN; PROGESTERONE; SEX HORMONE;

BRAIN STEM; CELL ACTIVATION; CELLULAR STRESS RESPONSE; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); GIANT CELL; NERVE CELL; NONHUMAN; NORADRENERGIC SYSTEM; OXYTOCIN NEURON; OXYTOCIN RELEASE; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK REDUCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS;

ANIMALS; CHOLECYSTOKININ; FEMALE; HOMEOSTASIS; MAMMALS; MYOMETRIUM; NEURONS; OXYTOCIN; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; PARTURITION; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, ANIMAL; PROGESTERONE; RATS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SUPRAOPTIC NUCLEUS; UTERUS;

EID: 47549098472     PISSN: 00796123     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6123(08)00430-5     Document Type: Review

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