Effects of oxytocin on responses to nociceptive and non-nociceptive stimulation in the upper central nervous system

Oxytocin is known as a social bonding hormone, but it also functions as an anxiolytic or analgesic neurotransmitter. When oxytocin regulates pain or anxiousness centrally as a neurotransmitter, it is secreted by neurons and directly projected to targeted regions. Although the function of oxytocin at...

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Veröffentlicht in:	Biochemical and biophysical research communications 2021-10, Vol.574, p.8-13
Hauptverfasser:	Saito, Hidehisa, Hidema, Shizu, Otsuka, Ayano, Suzuki, Jun, Kumagai, Michio, Kanaya, Akihiro, Murakami, Toru, Takei, Yusuke, Saito, Kazutomo, Sugino, Shigekazu, Toyama, Hiroaki, Saito, Ryuta, Tominaga, Teiji, Nishimori, Katsuhiko, Yamauchi, Masanori
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	Medial amygdala Nucleus accumbens Oxytocin Pain Periaqueductal gray Unpleasant stimulation
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