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Oxytocin Receptors Regulate Social Preference in Zebrafish

Scientific Reports, 2020
With a strong tendency to socialise, the zebrafish is a useful model to study social behaviour, with implications for better treatments of social impairments, for instance in autism spectrum disorders. Although oxytocin is crucial for social behaviour in
J. Landin, Daniel Hovey, Bo Xu, David Lagman, A. Zettergren, D. Larhammar, P. Kettunen, L. Westberg   +7 more
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From autism to eating disorders and more: the role of oxytocin in neuropsychiatric disorders [PDF]

, 2016
Oxytocin (oxy) is a pituitary neuropeptide hormone synthesized from the paraventricular and supraoptic nuclei within the hypothalamus. Like other neuropeptides, oxy can modulate a wide range of neurotransmitter and neuromodulator activities. Additionally,
Di Bonaventura, Maria Vittoria Micioni, Gaetani, Silvana, Romano, Adele, Tempesta, Bianca   +3 more
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Oxytocin Reduces Intravesical Pressure in Anesthetized Female Rats: Action on Oxytocin Receptors of the Urinary Bladder

Frontiers in Physiology, 2020
Urinary bladder dysfunction affects several people worldwide and shows higher prevalence in women. Micturition is dependent on the Barrington’s nucleus, pontine urine storage center and periaqueductal gray matter, but other brain stem areas are involved ...
Eduardo M. Cafarchio, Luiz A. da Silva, Luciana C. Auresco, Itatiana F. Rodart, Janaina S. de Souza, Bruno B. Antonio, Daniel P. Venancio, Laura B. M. Maifrino, Rui M. B. Maciel, Gisele Giannocco, Patrik Aronsson, Monica A. Sato   +11 more
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Oxytocin as a regulatory neuropeptide in the trigeminovascular system: Localization, expression and function of oxytocin and oxytocin receptors

Cephalalgia, 2020
Background Recent clinical findings suggest that oxytocin could be a novel treatment for migraine. However, little is known about the role of this neuropeptide/hormone and its receptor in the trigeminovascular pathway.
K. Warfvinge, D. Krause, A. Maddahi, A. Grell, Jacob C. A. Edvinsson, K. Haanes, L. Edvinsson   +6 more
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Involvement of central opiate receptors in modulation of centrally administered oxytocin-induced antinociception [PDF]

Iranian Journal of Basic Medical Sciences, 2018
Objective(s): Oxytocin is involved in modulation of many brain-mediated functions. In the present study, we investigated the central effects of oxytocin and its receptor antagonist, atosiban on inflammatory pain.
Amir Erfanparast, Esmaeal Tamaddonfard, Sahar Seyedin   +2 more
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Oxytocin activity in the paraventricular and supramammillary nuclei of the hypothalamus is essential for social recognition memory in rats

bioRxiv, 2023
Oxytocin plays an important role in modulating social recognition memory. However, the direct implication of oxytocin neurons of the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus (PVH) and their downstream hypothalamic targets in regulating short- and long-
K. Rajamani, Marie Barbier, A. Lefevre, Kristi Niblo, Nicholas Cordero, S. Netser, V. Grinevich, S. Wagner, Hala Harony-Nicolas   +8 more
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Oxytocin and vasopressin within the ventral and dorsal lateral septum modulate aggression in female rats

Nature Communications, 2021
In contrast to male rats, aggression in virgin female rats has been rarely studied. Here, we established a rat model of enhanced aggression in females using a combination of social isolation and aggression-training to specifically investigate the ...
V. E. M. Oliveira, M. Lukas, H. N. Wolf, E. Durante, Alexandra Lorenz, Anna-Lena Mayer, A. Bludau, O. Bosch, V. Grinevich, Veronica Egger, T. D. de Jong, I. Neumann   +11 more
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Oxytocin Receptors Are Expressed by Glutamatergic Prefrontal Cortical Neurons That Selectively Modulate Social Recognition

Journal of Neuroscience, 2019
Social recognition, the ability to recognize individuals that were previously encountered, requires complex integration of sensory inputs with previous experience.
Yalun Tan, Sarthak M. Singhal, S. Harden, Karlena M. Cahill, Dan-Tam M. Nguyen, L. Colon-Perez, Todd J. Sahagian, J. Thinschmidt, A. D. de Kloet, M. Febo, C. Frazier, E. Krause   +11 more
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Oxytocin Attenuates the Stress-Induced Reinstatement of Alcohol-Seeking in Male Rats: Role of the Central Amygdala

Biomedicines, 2021
Factors such as stress and anxiety often contribute to alcohol-dependent behavior and can trigger a relapse of alcohol addiction and use. Therefore, it is important to investigate potential pharmacological interventions that may alleviate the influence ...
Hannah S. Ballas, Samantha M. Wilfur, Nicole A. Freker, Kah-Chung Leong   +3 more
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New Topics in Vasopressin Receptors and Approach to Novel Drugs: Vasopressin and Pain Perception

Journal of Pharmacological Sciences, 2009
Arginine vasopressin (AVP) activates three vasopressin receptors and it also has an agonistic activity on the oxytocin receptor. For an accurate description of the target receptor subtype(s) responsible for complex AVP and oxytocin actions, a careful ...
Taka-aki Koshimizu, Gozoh Tsujimoto
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