...+ -sensitization in human myometrium. 1 To whom correspondence should be addressed (email A.LopezBernal@bristol.ac.uk ). 14 6 2011 © The Authors Journal compilation © 2012 Biochemical Society 2012 calcium-sensitization myometrium myosin phosphatase oxytocin Rho-associated...

..., semi-independent of electrical activity, and allows the diffusion of peptides to distant targets. The peptide oxytocin regulates many behaviours; in particular, it inhibits food intake. Centrally, oxytocin is released in large amounts by the dendrites of hypothalamic magnocellular neurons. This mini...

...I.D. Neumann The brain oxytocin system has served as a distinguished model system in neuroendocrinology to study detailed mechanisms of intracerebral release, in particular of somatodendritic release, and its behavioural and neuroendocrine consequences. It has been shown that oxytocin is released...

...B. Chini; M. Manning The design and development of selective agonists acting at the OT (oxytocin)/AVP (vasopressin) receptors has been and continues to be a difficult task because of the great similarity among the different receptor subtypes as well as the high degree of chemical similarity between...