Roles of arginine vasotocin receptors in the brain and pituitary of submammalian vertebrates

International Review of Cell and Molecular Biology

Volumn 304, Issue , 2013, Pages 191-225

  Hasunuma, Itaru ^a   Toyoda, Fumiyo ^b   Okada, Reiko ^c   Yamamoto, Kazutoshi ^d   Kadono, Yoshihiko ^c   Kikuyama, Sakae ^d  

^a TOHO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NARA MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^d WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Animal behavior; Arginine vasopressin; Arginine vasotocin; Brain; Pituitary; Submammalian vertebrate

Indexed keywords

VASOPRESSIN V1A RECEPTOR; VASOPRESSIN V1B RECEPTOR; VASOPRESSIN V2 RECEPTOR;

AMPHIBIA; ARTICLE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; HUMAN; HYPOPHYSIS; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN FUNCTION; PROTEIN LOCALIZATION; PROTEIN STRUCTURE; VERTEBRATE;

AMPHIBIA; ANIMALIA; AVES; MAMMALIA; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84879568374     PISSN: 19376448     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-407696-9.00004-X     Document Type: Chapter

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