As an added bonus, the nerve cells and neurohormones that control sleep and wakefulness turn out to be closely related to those that regulate another vital behavior _ eating.
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Unhealthy cardiac hypertrophy ( pathological hypertrophy ) is the response to stress or disease such as hypertension, heart muscle injury ( myocardial infarction ), heart failure or neurohormones.
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There is no CCAP or CCAP-like immunoreactivity shown in the oviduct or the nerves innervating the oviduct so it is probable that CCAP acts as a neurohormone to perform these functions.
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Octopamine was first discovered by Italian scientist Vittorio Erspamer in 1948 in the salivary glands of the octopus and has since been found to act as a neurotransmitter, neurohormone and neuromodulator in invertebrates.
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An orgasm includes involuntary actions, including muscular spasms in multiple areas of the body, a general refractory period, is often a relaxing experience, attributed to the release of the neurohormones oxytocin and prolactin.
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In lobsters, octopamine seems to direct and coordinate neurohormones to some extent in the central nervous system, and it was observed that injecting octopamine into a lobster and crayfish resulted in limb and abdomen extension.
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Several years later the peptide was independently identified from locusts, where it was initially named'dark-color-inducing neurohormone'or'dark pigmentotropin'due to its ability to induce dark pigmentation in some insects.
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*N�ssel DR ( 2002 ) . " Neuropeptides in the nervous system of Drosophila and other insects : multiple roles as neuromodulators and neurohormones " . " Progress in Neurobiology " 68 ( 1 ) : 1-84.
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Dr . Bruce Pomerantz of the University of Toronto has labored since the early 1970s to demonstrate how acupuncture stimulates the release of endorphins _ the body's natural opium-like pain-killers _ and other so-called neurohormones.
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After orgasm and ejaculation, men usually experience a refractory period characterised by loss of erection, a subsidence in any sex flush, less interest in sex, and a feeling of relaxation that can be attributed to the neurohormones oxytocin and prolactin.
