Assembling the Puzzle: Pathways of Oxytocin Signaling in the Brain

Biological Psychiatry

Volumn 79, Issue 3, 2016, Pages 155-164

  Grinevich, Valery ^a,b   Knobloch Bollmann, H Sophie ^a,b   Eliava, Marina ^a,b   Busnelli, Marta ^c   Chini, Bice ^c  

^a GERMAN CANCER RESEARCH CENTER DKFZ   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Axonal release; Evolution; Ontogenesis; Oxytocin; Oxytocin receptor; Social behavior; Somatodendritic release

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR;

BRAIN; DIFFUSION; EVOLUTION; HUMAN; NERVE FIBER; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PSYCHOSOCIAL DISORDER; REVIEW; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; HUMANS; OXYTOCIN; RECEPTORS, OXYTOCIN; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84955580829     PISSN: 00063223     EISSN: 18732402     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2015.04.013     Document Type: Review

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