The neurophysiology of neurosecretory cells

摘要

With the current trend in neurobiology of increasingly molecular/genetic studies, coupled with the faster payoff and feasibility of in vitro preparations, it is well to reflect on the advances from, and continued need for, the often more difficult systems research in neuroendocrinology. A huge leap in understanding the relationship between the electrical discharge of oxytocin (OT) and vasopressin (VP) neurons and hormone release occurred courtesy of the discovery that the milk ejection known to result from OT release during lactation in mammals could be obtained under anaesthesia (Lincoln et al. 1973)#