Title : Keeping oxytocin neurons under control during stress in pregnancy.

Pub. Date : 2008

PMID : 18655896






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1 Here we discuss the mechanisms involved, which include induction of central inhibitory opioid tone by the progesterone neurosteroid metabolite, allopregnanolone, and act to prevent activation of oxytocin neurons by inappropriate stimuli at the end of pregnancy. Progesterone oxytocin/neurophysin I prepropeptide Homo sapiens