Vasopressin and Oxytocin: From Genes to Clinical Applications
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Vasopressin and Oxytocin: From Genes to Clinical Applications

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Vasopressin and Oxytocin: From Genes to Clinical Applications

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Front Cover
  2. VASOPRESSIN AND OXYTOCIN: FROM GENES TO CLINICAL APPLICATIONS
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Contents
  5. List of Contributors
  6. Preface
  7. Acknowledgements
  8. Chapter 1. The magnocellular neuronal phenotype: cell-specific gene expression in the hypothalamo-neurohypophysial system
  9. Chapter 2. Estrogen modulates oxytocin gene expression in regions of the rat supraoptic and paraventricular nuclei that contain estrogen receptor-β
  10. Chapter 3. Short-term modulation of GABAA receptor function in the adult female rat
  11. Chapter 4. Cholesterol and steroid hormones: modulators of oxytocin receptor function
  12. Chapter 5. Central vasopressin systems and steroid hormones
  13. Chapter 6. Regulation of renal salt and water transporters during vasopressin escape
  14. Chapter 7. Stretch-inactivated cation channels: cellular targets for modulation of osmosensitivity in supraoptic neurons
  15. Chapter 8. Glial cells in the hypothalamo-neurohypophysial system: key elements of the regulation of neuronal electrical and secretory activity
  16. Chapter 9. Functional synaptic plasticity in hypothalamic magnocellular neurons
  17. Chapter 10. Postsynaptic GABAB receptors in supraoptic oxytocin and vasopressin neurons
  18. Chapter 11. Neurohypophyseal hormones in the integration of physiological responses to immune challenges
  19. Chapter 12. Involvement of the brain oxytocin system in stress coping: interactions with the hypothalamo–pituitary–adrenal axis
  20. Chapter 13. Expression of human vasopressin and oxytocin receptors in Escherichia coli
  21. Chapter 14. Molecular pharmacology and modeling of vasopressin receptors
  22. Chapter 15. Nonpeptide vasopressin receptor antagonists: development of selective and orally active V1a, V2 and V1b receptor ligands
  23. Chapter 16. Rat vasopressin mRNA: a model system to characterize cis-acting elements and trans-acting factors involved in dendritic mRNA sorting
  24. Chapter 17. Dendritic action potentials in magnocellular neurons
  25. Chapter 18. Modulation of synaptic transmission by oxytocin and vasopressin in the supraoptic nucleus
  26. Chapter 19. The active role of dendrites in the regulation of magnocellular neurosecretory cell behavior
  27. Chapter 20. Cardiovascular regulation of supraoptic vasopressin neurons
  28. Chapter 21. The central vasopressinergic system in experimental left ventricular hypertrophy and dysfunction
  29. Chapter 22. Cardiovascular effects of oxytocin
  30. Chapter 23. Treatment of the diabetic patient: focus on cardiovascular and renal risk reduction
  31. Chapter 24. Oxytocin in parturition of guinea pigs, humans, and other species
  32. Chapter 25. Oxytocin, vasopressin and atrial natriuretic peptide control body fluid homeostasis by action on their receptors in brain, cardiovascular system and kidney
  33. Chapter 26. Positive and negative regulators of the vasopressin gene promoter in small cell lung cancer
  34. Chapter 27. The vasopressin receptor of corticotroph pituitary cells
  35. Chapter 28. Involvement of oxytocin and vasopressin in the pathophysiology of preterm labor and primary dysmenorrhea
  36. Subject Index