Central blockade of oxytocin receptors during mid-late gestation reduces amplitude of slow afterhyperpolarization in supraoptic oxytocin neurons

American Journal of Physiology - Endocrinology and Metabolism

Volumn 295, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Teruyama, R ^a   Lipschitz, D L ^b   Wang, L ^a   Ramoz, G R ^b   Crowley, W R ^b   Bealer, S L ^b   Armstrong, W E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

Electrophysiology; Hyperpolarizing afterpotentials; Hypothalamus; Lactation; Vasopressin

Indexed keywords

APAMIN; OXYTOCIN; OXYTOCIN ANTAGONIST; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR;

AFTERHYPERPOLARIZATION; AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CEREBROSPINAL FLUID; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GESTATION PERIOD; LACTATION; MINIPUMP; NONHUMAN; PLASTICITY; PREGNANCY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUPRAOPTIC NUCLEUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; APAMIN; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; FEMALE; GESTATIONAL AGE; HYPOTHALAMUS, ANTERIOR; LACTATION; MEMBRANE POTENTIALS; NEURONAL PLASTICITY; NEURONS; ORNIPRESSIN; OXYTOCIN; PREGNANCY; RATS; RECEPTORS, OXYTOCIN; VASOPRESSINS;

EID: 57049189133     PISSN: 01931849     EISSN: 15221555     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1152/ajpendo.90620.2008     Document Type: Article

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