Abstract Information in neurons flows from synapses, through the dendrites and cell body (soma),
and, finally, along the axon as spikes of electrical activity that will ultimately release …

In this review, we consider the ways in which vasopressin and oxytocin have been measured
since their first discovery. Two different ways of measuring oxytocin in widespread use …

The peptides α-melanocyte stimulating hormone (α-MSH) and oxytocin, when administered
centrally, produce similar behavioral effects. α-MSH induces Fos expression in supraoptic …

Oxytocin neurons have a physiological role in food intake and energy balance. Central
administration of oxytocin is powerfully anorexigenic, reducing food intake and meal duration. …

Mutations in SPTBN2, the gene encoding β-III spectrin, cause spinocerebellar ataxia type 5
in humans (SCA5), a neurodegenerative disorder resulting in loss of motor coordination. …

Oxytocin has potent central effects on feeding behaviour, as well as on social and sexual
behaviours, and one likely substrate for its anorectic effect is the ventromedial nucleus of the …

Mammalian neurons that produce oxytocin and vasopressin apparently evolved from an
ancient cell type with both sensory and neurosecretory properties that probably linked …

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

X-linked nephrogenic diabetes insipidus (NDI) is a rare disease with defective renal and
extrarenal arginine vasopressin V2 receptor responses due to mutations in the AVPR2 gene in …

Geoffrey Harris pioneered our understanding of the posterior pituitary, mainly with experiments
that involved the electrical stimulation of the supraoptico-hypophysial tract. In the present …