Prolactin and oxytocin: potential targets for migraine treatment
The Journal of Headache and Pain, 2023 Migraine is a severe neurovascular disorder of which the pathophysiology is not yet fully understood. Besides the role of inflammatory mediators that interact with the trigeminovascular system, cyclic fluctuations in sex steroid hormones are involved in ...
Anna K. Szewczyk +18 more
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Effect of exogenous oxytocin on the expression of oxytocin receptor gene and uterine involution in local Iraqi cows [PDF]
Iraqi Journal of Veterinary Sciences, 2022 The present work aimed to study the effect of exogenous oxytocin injection on the expression of the oxytocin receptor gene and the duration of uterine involution in the local Iraqi breed of Karradi cows. Twenty cows were divided into two groups.
Barra D. Al-Watar, Khawla A. Hussein
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Central mechanisms mediating the hypophagic effects of oleoylethanolamide and N-acylphosphatidylethanolamines: different lipid signals? [PDF]
, 2015 The spread of "obesity epidemic" and the poor efficacy of many anti-obesity therapies in the long-term highlight the need to develop novel efficacious therapy. This necessity stimulates a large research effort to find novel mechanisms controlling feeding
Gaetani, Silvana +4 more
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Anxious to see you: Neuroendocrine mechanisms of social vigilance and anxiety during adolescence. [PDF]
, 2020 Social vigilance is a behavioral strategy commonly used in adverse or changing social environments. In animals, a combination of avoidance and vigilance allows an individual to evade potentially dangerous confrontations while monitoring the social ...
Cassano G. B. +6 more
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An analgesic pathway from parvocellular oxytocin neurons to the periaqueductal gray in rats
Nature Communications, 2023 The hypothalamic neuropeptide oxytocin exerts analgesic effects, but the underlying pathways remain largely elusive. Here, the authors describe an analgesic pathway formed by oxytocin neurons projecting to the periaqueductal grey, where axonally released
Mai Iwasaki +30 more
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UNDULY ENHANCED RESPONSE TO TOLVAPTAN IN A WOMAN SHOWING SYNDROME OF INAPPROPRIATE ANTIDIURETIC HORMONE SECRETION: AN INVESTIGATION OF POSSIBLE CAUSES [PDF]
, 2017 Objective: To investigate possible causes of an excessive response to tolvaptan in a woman with syndrome of inappropriate antidiuretic hormone secretion (SIADH).
Lanzellotti, Davide +4 more
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Oxytocin reduces adipose tissue inflammation in obese mice
Lipids in Health and Disease, 2020 Background Obesity and adipose tissue expansion is characterized by a chronic state of systemic inflammation that contributes to disease. The neuropeptide, oxytocin, working through its receptor has been shown to attenuate inflammation in sepsis, wound ...
Angela Szeto +4 more
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Labor-associated gene expression in the human uterine fundus, lower segment, and cervix [PDF]
, 2006 Background Preterm labor, failure to progress, and postpartum hemorrhage are the common causes of maternal and neonatal mortality or morbidity. All result from defects in the complex mechanisms controlling labor, which coordinate changes in the ...
Aguan +37 more
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Microbial lysate upregulates host oxytocin [PDF]
, 2017 Neuropeptide hormone oxytocin has roles in social bonding, energy metabolism, and wound healing contributing to good physical, mental and social health. It was previously shown that feeding of a human commensal microbe Lactobacillus reuteri (L.
Alm, Eric J. +13 more
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Frontiers in Genetics, 2023 The neurohormone oxytocin regulates many aspects of physiology primarily by binding to its receptor, the oxytocin receptor. The oxytocin receptor gene (Oxtr) has been shown to have alternative transcripts in the mouse brain which may each have different ...
Joshua S. Danoff +11 more
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