Oxytocin decreases colonic motility of cold water stressed rats via oxytocin receptors

World Journal of Gastroenterology

Volumn 20, Issue 31, 2014, Pages 10886-10894

  Yang, Xiao ^a   Xi, Tao Fang ^a   Li, Yu Xian ^a   Wang, Hai Hong ^a   Qin, Ying ^a   Zhang, Jie Ping ^a   Cai, Wen Ting ^a   Huang, Meng Ting ^a   Shen, Ji Qiao ^a   Fan, Xi Min ^a   Shi, Xuan Zheng ^b   Xie, Dong Ping ^a  

^a TONGJI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (China)

^b University of Texas Medical Branch School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

Colonic motility; Estradiol; Intragastric cold water stress; Irritable bowel syndrome; Oxytocin; Oxytocin receptor

Indexed keywords

ATOSIBAN; ESTROGEN; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR; TETRODOTOXIN; ESTRADIOL; HORMONE ANTAGONIST; OXYTOCIN; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR, RAT; WATER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; COLD STRESS; COLON MOTILITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FLUID INTAKE; GASTROINTESTINAL TRANSIT; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; IN VITRO STUDY; MUSCLE CONTRACTILITY; MYENTERIC PLEXUS; NONHUMAN; OVARIECTOMY; OXYTOCIN BLOOD LEVEL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; RAT; SMOOTH MUSCLE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; WESTERN BLOTTING; AGONISTS; ANIMAL; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; BLOOD; COLD; COLON; DOSE RESPONSE; DRINKING; DRUG EFFECTS; DRUG THERAPY; ESTROGEN THERAPY; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; INNERVATION; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TIME;

ANIMALS; COLD TEMPERATURE; COLON; DOSE-RESPONSE RELATIONSHIP, DRUG; DRINKING; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL MOTILITY; HORMONE ANTAGONISTS; MUSCLE, SMOOTH; MYENTERIC PLEXUS; OVARIECTOMY; OXYTOCIN; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECEPTORS, OXYTOCIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; TIME FACTORS; WATER;

EID: 84909619018     PISSN: 10079327     EISSN: 22192840     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3748/wjg.v20.i31.10886     Document Type: Article

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