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Introduction The neuropeptide oxytocin is a hormone with a wide range of central and peripheral effects. Besides its well-known role in labour and lactation ( Gimpl & Fahrenholz 2001 ), oxytocin is released in response to various stress stimuli
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stimulation of the neural stalk in lactating rabbits resulted in a sharp rise in intramammary pressure, and they inferred that this was the consequence of oxytocin secreted from the posterior pituitary. They noted that the response to stimulation depended
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Argiolas A Collu M Gessa GL Melis MR Serra G 1988 The oxytocin antagonist d(CH2)5Tyr(Me)-Orn8-vasotocin inhibits male copulatory behaviour in rats . European Journal of Pharmacology 149 389 – 392 . ( https://doi.org/10
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experimental model extensively used to study these responses. WD increases osmolality and decreases plasma volume, inducing the release of hormones that act to maintain homeostasis, such as vasopressin (AVP) and oxytocin (OT), and the activation of the renin
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arginine vasopressin (AVP) and oxytocin (OXT) into the blood circulation from their axonal terminals ( Miyata & Hatton 2002 ). Similarly, they release a variety of neuropeptides into the blood circulation at the median eminence (ME) to control secretion of
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vasopressin (AVP; Yokoi et al . 1996 ). Central administration of AM activated oxytocin (OXT)-secreting neurones in the supraoptic (SON) and the paraventricular nuclei (PVN; Serino et al . 1999 , Ueta et al . 2000 ), and markedly increased plasma OXT
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and SON contain neurons that produce arginine vasopressin (AVP) and/or oxytocin (OT) and project not only to the posterior pituitary gland, but also elsewhere within the central nervous system (CNS). While AVP is well known to control fluid balance by
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expenditure ( van der Lely et al . 2004 ). A recent study has showed that intraventricular administration of ghrelin increases the c-fos activity of oxytocin (OXT)-secreting neurons ( Olszewski et al . 2007 ). OXT is involved in social bonding, has important
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oxytocin receptor (OTR) gene and protein in rabbit and human cavernous tissue in a similar concentration to that found in other portions of the male genital tract ( Vignozzi et al. 2004 ), classically considered the main male target of oxytocin (OT), such
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Introduction Oxytocin (OT) originally recognized as a pregnancy hormone is produced primarily in paraventricular and supraoptic nuclei of the hypothalamus. OT is also synthesized in the cardiovascular system ( Jankowski et al . 1998 , Oyama et al