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Physiological Pathways Regulating the Activity of Magnocellular Neurosecretory Cells

Gareth Leng, +2 more
- 01 Apr 1999 - 
- Vol. 57, Iss: 6, pp 625-655
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This review considers the rôle played by particular afferent pathways in the regulation of the activity of oxytocin and vasopressin cells.
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This article is published in Progress in Neurobiology.The article was published on 1999-04-01. It has received 307 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Vasopressin & Oxytocin.

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The Oxytocin Receptor System: Structure, Function, and Regulation

TL;DR: The regulation by gonadal and adrenal steroids is one of the most remarkable features of the OT system and is, unfortunately, the least understood.
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Vasopressin and oxytocin release within the brain: a dynamic concept of multiple and variable modes of neuropeptide communication

TL;DR: This concept considers neuropeptides in the extracellular fluid of the brain rather than those in the cerebrospinal fluid or plasma as primary signals, triggering a variety of receptor-mediated effects, including those underlying behavioral and neuroendocrine regulation and psychopathology.
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Dendritic peptide release and peptide-dependent behaviours

TL;DR: The recently demonstrated ability of neuropeptides to prime vesicle stores for activity-dependent release could lead to a temporary functional reorganization of neuronal networks harbouring specific peptide receptors, providing a substrate for long-lasting effects.
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Physiology of Vasopressin Relevant to Management of Septic Shock

TL;DR: Clinical use of vasopressin should await a randomized controlled trial of its effects on clinical outcomes such as organ failure and mortality, because clinical studies have been relatively small, focused on physiologic end points, and because of potential adverse effects of vasipressin.
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The hypothalamic-neurohypophysial system regulates the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis under stress: an old concept revisited.

TL;DR: Data supporting the concept of HNS effects on HPA axis activity is presented and their possible impact on some aspects of behavioural regulation and psychopathology is outlined.
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Action of endogenous oxytocin within the paraventricular or supraoptic nuclei : a powerful link in the regulation of the bursting pattern of oxytocin neurons during the milk-ejection reflex in rats

TL;DR: It is suggested that the recruitment of a critical number of oxytocin neurons within one nucleus induces changes in the bursting activity of the oxytoc in neurons in the four magnocellular nuclei.
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Oxytocin receptors on oxytocin neurones: histoautoradiographic detection in the lactating rat.

TL;DR: Combined application of histoautoradiographic and immunohistochemical techniques showed that the OT binding sites were concentrated on OT magnocellular neurones, and probably mediate the facilitatory effect of OT on its own release during the milk ejection reflex.
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Ultrastructural evidence for intra- and extranuclear projections of GABAergic neurons of the suprachiasmatic nucleus.

TL;DR: The present results indicate that the SCN may utilize this inhibitory neurotransmitter to regulate and organize its own circadian rhythm as well as using GABA to transmit its diurnal information to other regions of the brain.
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Clonidine infusions into the locus coeruleus attenuate behavioral and neurochemical changes associated with naloxone-precipitated withdrawal.

TL;DR: Behavioral and biochemical evidence is provided to support the suggestion that clonidine significantly attenuates naloxone-precipitated withdrawal through an interaction with noradrenergic neurons located in the vicinity of the LC.
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Naloxone prevents interruption of parturition and increases plasma oxytocin following environmental disturbance in parturient sows

TL;DR: Plasma concentrations of oxytocin in primiparous female pigs with chronic catheters preplaced in the external jugular vein were significantly lower than in naloxone-treated pigs, five out of six of which gave birth spontaneously to one or more piglets within 2.5 h.
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