Vasopressin and Oxytocin: From Genes to Clinical ApplicationsD. Poulain, S. Oliet, D. Theodosis The articles comprising this volume were first presented at the World Congress on Neurohypophysial Hormones held in Bordeaux, France on September 8-12, 2001. This conference brought together more than 170 scientists from 18 countries who belong to the different fields of interest representing research in the hypothalamo-neurohypophysial system. Two neurohypophysial neurohormones, oxytocin and vasopressin, exert a variety of central and peripheral actions and thus involve different scientific domains, which too often, even today, do not always find the appropriate occasion to interact. This volume is composed of chapters dealing with topics varying from basic and clinical neurosciences and neuroendocrinology, to reproductive, renal, cardiovascular physiology and pathology. It encompasses all areas of current neurohypophysial research and should be of vital interest as an integrative reference volume to specialized investigators and as an excellent introductory text to students, scientists and clinicians not yet closely familiar with the field. To ensure novelty and to make sure that all topics of current importance were covered, plenary and symposium speakers as well as poster presentations concentrated on recent advances made in the last few years. |
Contents
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Chapter 3 Shortterm modulation of GABAA receptor function in the adult female rat | 31 |
modulators of oxytocin receptor function | 43 |
Chapter 5 Central vasopressin systems and steroid hormones | 57 |
Chapter 6 Regulation of renal salt and water transporters during vasopressin escape | 75 |
cellular targets for modulation of osmosensitivity in supraoptic neurons | 85 |
key elements of the regulation of neuronal electrical and secretory activity | 95 |
a model system to characterize cisacting elements and transacting factors involved in dendritic mRNA sorting | 211 |
Chapter 17 Dendritic action potentials in magnocellular neurons | 225 |
Chapter 18 Modulation of synaptic transmission by oxytocin and vasopressin in the supraoptic nucleus | 235 |
Chapter 19 The active role of dendrites in the regulation of magnocellular neurosecretory cell behavior | 247 |
Chapter 20 Cardiovascular regulation of supraoptic vasopressin neurons | 257 |
Chapter 21 The central vasopressinergic system in experimental left ventricular hypertrophy and dysfunction | 275 |
Chapter 22 Cardiovascular effects of oxytocin | 281 |
focus on cardiovascular and renal risk reduction | 289 |
Chapter 9 Functional synaptic plasticity in hypothalamic magnocellular neurons | 113 |
Chapter 10 Postsynaptic GABAB receptors in supraoptic oxytocin and vasopressin neurons | 121 |
Chapter 11 Neurohypophyseal hormones in the integration of physiological responses to immune challenges | 127 |
interactions with the hypothalamopituitaryadrenal axis | 147 |
Chapter 13 Expression of human vasopressin and oxytocin receptors in Escherichia coli | 163 |
Chapter 14 Molecular pharmacology and modeling of vasopressin receptors | 179 |
development of selective and orally active V1a V2 and V1b receptor ligands | 197 |
Chapter 24 Oxytocin in parturition of guinea pigs humans and other species | 299 |
Chapter 25 Oxytocin vasopressin and atrial natriuretic peptide control body fluid homeostasis by action on their receptors in brain cardiovascular syst... | 309 |
Chapter 26 Positive and negative regulators of the vasopressin gene promoter in small cell lung cancer | 329 |
Chapter 27 The vasopressin receptor of corticotroph pituitary cells | 345 |
Chapter 28 Involvement of oxytocin and vasopressin in the pathophysiology of preterm labor and primary dysmenorrhea | 359 |
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