Rat heart: A site of oxytocin production and action

We report here that the rat heart is a site of oxytocin (OT) synthesis and release. Oxytocin was detected in all four chambers of the heart. The highest OT concentration was in the right atrium (2128 ± 114 pg/mg protein), which was 19-fold higher than in rat uterus but 3.3-fold lower than in the hyp...

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Main Authors: Jankowski, Marek, Hajjar, Fadi, Kawas, Sausan Al, Mukaddam-Daher, Suhayla, Hoffman, Gloria, McCann, Samuel M., Gutkowska, Jolanta
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: The National Academy of Sciences 1998
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Biological Sciences
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC24412/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9826739
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