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REVIEW: Oxytocin: Crossing the Bridge between Basic Science and Pharmacotherapy

  1. Cedric Viero1,
  2. Izumi Shibuya2,
  3. Naoki Kitamura2,
  4. Alexei Verkhratsky3,4,
  5. Hiroaki Fujihara5,
  6. Akiko Katoh5,
  7. Yoichi Ueta5,
  8. Hans H. Zingg6,
  9. Alexandr Chvatal3,7,
  10. Eva Sykova7,8,
  11. Govindan Dayanithi3

Article first published online: 7 JUL 2010

DOI: 10.1111/j.1755-5949.2010.00185.x

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CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics

CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics

Volume 16, Issue 5, pages e138–e156, October 2010

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Viero, C., Shibuya, I., Kitamura, N., Verkhratsky, A., Fujihara, H., Katoh, A., Ueta, Y., Zingg, H. H., Chvatal, A., Sykova, E. and Dayanithi, G. (2010), REVIEW: Oxytocin: Crossing the Bridge between Basic Science and Pharmacotherapy. CNS Neuroscience & Therapeutics, 16: e138–e156. doi: 10.1111/j.1755-5949.2010.00185.x

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  1. 1

     Department of Cardiology, Wales Heart Research Institute, School of Medicine, Cardiff University, Cardiff, UK

  2. 2

     Department of Veterinary Physiology, Tottori University, Tottori, Japan

  3. 3

     Department of Cellular Neurophysiology, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, EU Centre of Excellence, Prague, Czech Republic

  4. 4

     University of Manchester, School of Biological Sciences, Stopford Building, Oxford Road, Manchester M13 9PT, UK

  5. 5

     Department of Physiology, School of Medicine, University of Occupational and Environmental Health, Kitakyushu, Japan

  6. 6

     Department of Pharmacology & Therapeutics, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

  7. 7

     Center for Cell Therapy and Tissue Repair, Charles University, Second Medical Faculty, Prague, Czech Republic

  8. 8

     Department of Neuroscience, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, EU Centre of Excellence, Prague, Czech Republic

*Correspondence Govindan Dayanithi, Directeur de Recherche au CNRS, Laboratory of Physiology of Calcium Signaling, Department of Cellular Neurophysiology, Institute of Experimental Medicine, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, v.v.i., Videnska, 1083, 142 20 Prague 4, Czech Republic. Tel.: +420 241 062725; Fax: +420 241 062732; E-mail: gdaya@univ-montp2.fr; gdaya@biomed.cas.cz

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