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Literature summary for 3.4.11.3 extracted from

  • Tobin, V.A.; Arechaga, G.; Brunton, P.J.; Russell, J.A.; Leng, G.; Ludwig, M.; Douglas, A.J.
    Oxytocinase in the female rat hypothalamus: a novel mechanism controlling oxytocin neurones during lactation (2014), J. Neuroendocrinol., 26, 205-216.
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Inhibitors

Inhibitors Comment Organism Structure
amastatin
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Rattus norvegicus

Organism

Organism UniProt Comment Textmining
Rattus norvegicus P97629
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Source Tissue

Source Tissue Comment Organism Textmining
hypothalamus
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Rattus norvegicus
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neuron expressed in magnocellular neurones of the supraoptic (SON) and paraventricular (PVN) nuclei Rattus norvegicus
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Synonyms

Synonyms Comment Organism
oxytocinase
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Rattus norvegicus
P-LAP
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Rattus norvegicus
Placental leucine aminopeptidase
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Rattus norvegicus

Expression

Organism Comment Expression
Rattus norvegicus expression is higher in lactating rats up

General Information

General Information Comment Organism
malfunction inhibition of central enzyme activity by injection of amastatin in anaesthetised suckling mothers increases the frequency of reflex milk ejections Rattus norvegicus