Vasopressin and oxytocin beyond the pituitary in the human brain
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Vasopressin and oxytocin beyond the pituitary in the human brain. / Møller, Morten.
Handbook of Clinical Neurology. 1. ed. Elsevier, 2021. p. 7-24 (Handbook of Clinical Neurology, Vol. 180).Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review
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TY - CHAP
T1 - Vasopressin and oxytocin beyond the pituitary in the human brain
AU - Møller, Morten
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2021 Elsevier B.V.
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Vasopressin and oxytocin are primarily synthesized in the magnocellular supraoptic and paraventricular nuclei of the hypothalamus and transported to the posterior pituitary. In the human, an extensive accessory magnocellular neuroendocrine system is present with contact to the posterior pituitary and blood vessels in the hypothalamus itself. Vasopressin and oxytocin are involved in social and behavioral functions. However, only few neocortical areas are targeted by vasopressinergic and oxytocinergic nerve fibers, which mostly project to limbic areas in the forebrain, where also their receptors are located. Vasopressinergic/oxytocinergic perikarya in the forebrain project to the brain stem and spinal cord targeting nuclei and areas involved in autonomic functions. Parvocellular neurons containing vasopressin are located in the suprachiasmatic nucleus and synchronize the activity of the pacemaker in this nucleus. From the suprachiasmatic nucleus fibers project to the parvocellular part of the paraventricular nucleus, where preautonomic neurons project to the intermediolateral nucleus in the thoracic spinal cord, from where the superior cervical ganglion is reached whose noradrenergic fibers terminate in the pineal gland to stimulate melatonin secretion at night. The pineal gland is also innervated by vasopressin- and oxytocin-containing fibers reaching the gland via the “central innervation” in the pineal stalk, which might be involve in an annual regulation of melatonin secretion.
AB - Vasopressin and oxytocin are primarily synthesized in the magnocellular supraoptic and paraventricular nuclei of the hypothalamus and transported to the posterior pituitary. In the human, an extensive accessory magnocellular neuroendocrine system is present with contact to the posterior pituitary and blood vessels in the hypothalamus itself. Vasopressin and oxytocin are involved in social and behavioral functions. However, only few neocortical areas are targeted by vasopressinergic and oxytocinergic nerve fibers, which mostly project to limbic areas in the forebrain, where also their receptors are located. Vasopressinergic/oxytocinergic perikarya in the forebrain project to the brain stem and spinal cord targeting nuclei and areas involved in autonomic functions. Parvocellular neurons containing vasopressin are located in the suprachiasmatic nucleus and synchronize the activity of the pacemaker in this nucleus. From the suprachiasmatic nucleus fibers project to the parvocellular part of the paraventricular nucleus, where preautonomic neurons project to the intermediolateral nucleus in the thoracic spinal cord, from where the superior cervical ganglion is reached whose noradrenergic fibers terminate in the pineal gland to stimulate melatonin secretion at night. The pineal gland is also innervated by vasopressin- and oxytocin-containing fibers reaching the gland via the “central innervation” in the pineal stalk, which might be involve in an annual regulation of melatonin secretion.
KW - Brain stem
KW - Hypothalamus
KW - Limbic
KW - Neocortex
KW - Oxytocin
KW - Pineal gland
KW - Spinal cord
KW - Suprachiasmatic
KW - Vasopressin
U2 - 10.1016/B978-0-12-820107-7.00002-1
DO - 10.1016/B978-0-12-820107-7.00002-1
M3 - Book chapter
C2 - 34225951
AN - SCOPUS:85108963503
SN - 978-0-12-820107-7
T3 - Handbook of Clinical Neurology
SP - 7
EP - 24
BT - Handbook of Clinical Neurology
PB - Elsevier
ER -
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