Ingestion of water and food are major hypo-and hyperosmotic challenges. To protect the
body from osmotic stress, posterior pituitary-projecting, vasopressin-secreting neurons (VP …

How does a neuron, challenged by an increase in synaptic input, display a response that is
independent of the initial level of activity? Here we show that both oxytocin and vasopressin …

Oxytocin (OXT) and vasopressin (VP) are known to be released from dendrites of
magnocellular neurons. Here, we show that these peptides reduced evoked EPSCs by a …

In this review we present the case for both hormonal and neurotransmitter actions of
angiotensin II (ANG) in the control of neuronal excitability in a simple neural pathway …

Magnocellular neurones of the hypothalamus release vasopressin and oxytocin from their
dendrites and soma. Using a combination of electrophysiology, microdialysis, in vitro …

Oxytocin (OT) and vasopressin (VP) release from the neurohypophysis are correlated with
the electrical activity of magnocellular cells (MNCs) in the supraoptic (SON) and …

The gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) system, considered to be the final common
pathway for the control of reproduction, has been difficult to study because of a lack of …

A peptide nucleic acid (PNA) antisense for the AUG translation initiation region of prepro-
oxytocin mRNA was synthesized and coupled to a retro-inverso peptide that is rapidly taken …

The neuropeptides oxytocin and vasopressin and the neurons in the hypothalamus that
synthesize them have been a rich source for the exploration and understanding of both the …

Background Social recognition underlies social behavior in animals, and patients with
psychiatric disorders associated with social deficits show abnormalities in social recognition …