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Ibogaine and a total alkaloidal extract of Voacanga africana modulate neuronal excitability and synaptic transmission in the rat parabrachial nucleus in vitroS B Kombian
NRG, University of Calgary, Faculty of Medicine, Canada
Brain Res Bull 44:603-10. 1997..Thus, ibogaine and Voacanga africana extract may produce their central effects by altering dopaminergic and glutamatergic processes...
Neurohypophysial peptides as retrograde transmitters in the supraoptic nucleus of the ratQ J Pittman
Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Exp Physiol 85:139S-143S. 2000..We discuss the possible significance of these results in terms of the physiological role of oxytocin in the intact animal and suggest possible avenues for further experimentation...
Electrophysiological studies of neurohypophysial neurons and peptidesQ J Pittman
Neuroscience Research Group, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Prog Brain Res 119:311-20. 1998..We have also observed actions of arginine vasopressin to modulate the action of glutamate in slices of the ventral septal area and to attenuate a glutamate-mediated excitatory postsynaptic current in slices of the parabrachial nucleus...
Oxytocin retrogradely inhibits evoked, but not miniature, EPSCs in the rat supraoptic nucleus: role of N- and P/Q-type calcium channelsM Hirasawa
Neuroscience Research Group, Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada
J Physiol 532:595-607. 2001..Therefore, dendritically released oxytocin acts mainly via a mechanism involving the N-type channel, and to a lesser extent the P/Q-type channel, to decrease excitatory transmission...
