Oxytocin and sexual behavior
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral ReviewsPublished 1 June 1992
C. Sue Carter
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The hypotheses that oxytocin and/or the neural events surrounding the release of Oxytocin may have behavioral effects during sexual arousal, orgasm, sexual satiety and other aspects of sociosexual interactions are considered.
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The neurohypophyseal hormone oxytocin has been implicated in many aspects of reproduction including sexual behavior. This review considers the hypotheses that oxytocin and/or the neural events surrounding the release of oxytocin may have behavioral effects during sexual arousal, orgasm, sexual satiety and other aspects of sociosexual interactions.
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There was no obvious correlation between plasma oxytocin levels and sperm count, sperm motility or the number of abnormal forms, but Oxytocin may play a role in the precipitation of ejaculation in males.
ScienceHormonal Basis for Breeding Behavior in Female Frogs: Vasotocin Inhibits the Release Call of <i>Rana pipiens</i>
84 Citations1978Carol Diakow
Trends in NeurosciencesOxytocin-secreting neurones: a physiological model for structural plasticity in the adult mammalian brain
79 Citations1987Dionysia T. Theodosis, Dominique A. Poulain
Oxytocin itself appears to be of primary importance in the reorganization of its own system, at least within the hypothalamus, since its basic architecture and synaptic circuitry is reversibly modified under particular physiological conditions.
PsychoneuroendocrinologyCentral mechanisms underlying the neural and neuroendocrine determinants of maternal behaviour
77 Citations1988E.B. Keverne
The neuroendocrine and neurochemical events which occur in the brain in the context of maternal behaviour fall into two main categories: Those which simultaneously address wide areas of the brain and lack any specific "coding" for maternal behaviour but are nevertheless essential for it to occur.
Journal of NeuroendocrinologyInfluence of Ovarian Steroids on the Ultrastructural Plasticity of the Adult Rat Supraoptic Nucleus Induced by Central Administration of Oxytocin
76 Citations1990Catherine M. Montagnese, Dominique A. Poulain +1 more
In earlier studies, it was shown that continuous intracerebroventricular infusion of oxytocin into the third ventricle of normally hydrated, non‐lactating adult female rats significantly reduced glial coverage of magnocellular Oxytocinergic neurons in the hypothalamus.
NeuroscienceSupraoptic nucleus afferents from the main olfactory bulb—I. Anatomical evidence from anterograde and retrograde tracers in rat
73 Citations1989Kenneth G. Smithson, Mark L. Weiss +1 more
A direct projection from the main olfactory bulb to the supraoptic nucleus of the rat is demonstrated using a combination of anatomical techniques and neurophysin immunocytochemistry.
Physiology & BehaviorTestosterone is not required for the enhancement of sexual motivation by yohimbine
72 Citations1985Jeanne M. Clark, Eric E. Smith +1 more
It is indicated that testosterone is not required for the enhancement of sexual motivation by yohimbine and the suggestion that alpha 2-adrenoceptors are involved in the modulation of sexual arousal is supported.
NeuroendocrinologyThe Importance of the Peripeduncular Nucleus in the Neuroendocrine Control of Sexual Behavior and Milk Ejection in the Rat
71 Citations2008Stefan Hansen, Christer Köhler
It was found that ibotenic acid, but not 6-OHDA, reproduced most of the effects produced by electrolytic lesions, and it was suggested that the peripeduncular nucleus plays an important role in the neuroendocrine control of male and female copulatory behavior, as well as in the regulation of the milk ejection reflex.
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