In rats, surgical lesions of the paraventricular nucleus markedly attenuated the oxytocin response to ipsapirone.
In plain wordsIn rats, damage to a brain area called the PVN strongly reduced the body's own oxytocin response to a serotonin-receptor drug.
- Peptide
- Oxytocin
- Outcome
- DecreaseOxytocin response to ipsapirone after PVN lesion
- Study
ratn: not reported in source
rats with paraventricular nucleus lesions given ipsapirone- Outcome group
- Endogenous peptide levels · Endocrine and hormones
Source sentences
Surgical lesions of the PVN completely blocked ACTH and corticosterone and markedly attenuated oxytocin but not prolactin responses to ipsapirone, providing evidence for a crucial role of the PVN in these responses.
1 context sentence(design, population, supporting numbers)
In the first study the possible role of the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus (PVN) in 5-HT1A receptor agonist-induced neuroendocrine responses was tested.
This result measures the body's own Oxytocin. Nobody was given the peptide. It is not evidence about taking it.