Neurochemical regulation of oxytocin secretion in lactation.
Neurochemical regulation of oxytocin secretion in lactation.
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DOI:
10.1210/edrv-13-1-33
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发表时间:
1992-02
影响因子:
20.3
通讯作者:
W. R. Crowley;W. Armstrong
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作者:
W. R. Crowley;W. Armstrong
I. Introduction: Physiological Patterns of Oxytocin Secretion THE nonapeptide oxytocin (OT) is an excellent example of a messenger molecule with diverse physiological actions as well as modes of delivery to its target cells (1, 2). After release from neurosecretory terminals in the neurohypophysis, OT exerts effects as a hormone carried by the systemic circulation to distant target organs, perhaps the most important of which are the mammary gland and uterus (1). In addition, OT may serve as a hypophyseotropic factor, released from nerve terminals in the median eminence into the pituitary portal vasculature, to affect anterior pituitary secretion (2–7), as a peptidergic neurotransmitter or neuromodulator acting within the central nervous system to influence a variety of neuroendocrine, behavioral, and autonomic functions (2, 8–13), and as a paracrine regulatory peptide in the ovary and testis (14–18). Although its most widely investigated physiological actions across all of these modalities are related to ...