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Different Functional Roles of the Neurohypophyseal Hormone Oxytocin:An Overview
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The traditional image of Oxytocin as a purely Neurohypophyseal hormone with endocrine actions in parturition and lactation has certainly been challenged in recent years. In the present review, we have discussed it’s other functional roles viz. in sexual response, in different emotional states, in excretory physiology, cardiac function, in autism, in the development of maternal behaviour, and interestingly, it’s involvement in the male reproductive physiology.
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