Latest Modern Developments on Oxytocin: Human and Animal Models Studies
A special issue of Medicina (ISSN 1648-9144). This special issue belongs to the section "Psychiatry".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 July 2022) | Viewed by 5383
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Interests: neuropsychiatry; oxidative stress
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Dear Colleagues,
Oxytocin is a nonapeptide hormone that is synthesized in the supraoptic and paraventricular nuclei of the hypothalamus and is directly projected into other brain areas, where it acts as a neurotransmitter.
Recently, several data have suggested that beside the classical roles in parturition and milk letdown, oxytocin could play an important part in the pathophysiology of some psychiatric disorders mainly characterized by impairments in the social functioning. In this way, in this SI, we are proposing a complex interdisciplinary approach regarding (but not limited to) the effects of oxytocin administration (peripheral vs. intranasal) in the pathophysiological manifestations of some animal models of autism, schizophrenia, anxiety and depression etc on rat and zebrafish (e.g. animal models in general), and also on the human patients, as well as any other related or relevant aspects towards these.
Dr. Alin Stelian Ciobică
Dr. Romeo Dobrin
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- oxytocin
- intranasal
- autism
- schizophrenia
- anxiety
- depression
- rat
- zebrafish
- animal models
- human patients
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