Lesions of Hypothalamic Mammillary Body Desynchronise Milk-Ejection Bursts of Rat Bilateral Supraoptic Oxytocin Neurones

Journal of Neuroendocrinology

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 67-75

  Wang, Y F ^a   Negoro, H ^b,c   Higuchi, T ^b,d  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FUKUI   (Japan)

^c Rehabilitation Center of Fukui Hospital   (Japan)

^d Fukui College of Health Sciences   (Japan)

Author keywords

Central nervous system; Electrophysiology; Lactation; Neuroendocrinology; Surgery

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANTERIOR HYPOTHALAMUS; ARTICLE; EVOKED RESPONSE; FEMALE; HEMISPHERE; HYPOTHALAMUS LESION; HYPOTHALAMUS NUCLEUS; LACTATION; LACTATION INHIBITION; MAMMILLARY BODY; MILK EJECTION; NERVE CELL EXCITABILITY; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SUCKLING; SUPRAMAMMILLARY NUCLEUS; TUBEROMAMMILLARY NUCLEUS;

ACTION POTENTIALS; ANIMALS; FEMALE; MAMILLARY BODIES; MILK EJECTION; NEURAL PATHWAYS; NEURONS; OXYTOCIN; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SUPRAOPTIC NUCLEUS;

EID: 84871499676     PISSN: 09538194     EISSN: 13652826     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2826.2012.02368.x     Document Type: Article

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