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Luz Torner

Mexican Social Security InstituteORCID

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L Torner, L. Torner, Luz M. Torner, Luz Torner, M L Torner, Torner

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Mexican Social Security InstituteUniversidad Nacional Autónoma de MéxicoUniversity of RegensburgUniversidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de HidalgoMax Planck Institute of Psychiatry
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Luz Torner is an author at Mexican Social Security Institute specializing in medicine, endocrinology, and neuroscience.

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Brain Oxytocin Inhibits Basal and Stress‐Induced Activity of the Hypothalamo‐Pituitary‐Adrenal Axis in Male and Female Rats: Partial Action Within the Paraventricular Nucleus

Neumann, Wigger, Luz Torner,

Journal of Neuroendocrinology

2000

447

Brain oxytocin: differential inhibition of neuroendocrine stress responses and anxiety-related behaviour in virgin, pregnant and lactating rats

Inga D. Neumann, Luz Torner, Alexandra Wigger

Neuroscience

1999

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Anxiolytic and Anti-Stress Effects of Brain Prolactin: Improved Efficacy of Antisense Targeting of the Prolactin Receptor by Molecular Modeling

Luz Torner, Nicola Toschi, Agnes Pohlinger,

Journal of Neuroscience

2001

264

Oxytocin reduces anxiety via ERK1/2 activation: local effect within the rat hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus

Annegret Blume, Oliver J. Bosch, Sandra Miklos,

European Journal of Neuroscience

2008

255

Increased hypothalamic expression of prolactin in lactation: involvement in behavioural and neuroendocrine stress responses

Luz Torner, Nicola Toschi, Gabriel Miranda Nava,

European Journal of Neuroscience

2002

219

Maternal separation activates microglial cells and induces an inflammatory response in the hippocampus of male rat pups, independently of hypothalamic and peripheral cytokine levels

Angélica Roque, Alejandra Ochoa‐Zarzosa, Luz Torner

Brain Behavior and Immunity

2015

183

Periodic maternal separation decreases hippocampal neurogenesis without affecting basal corticosterone during the stress hyporesponsive period, but alters HPA axis and coping behavior in adulthood

Naima Lajud, Angélica Roque, Marco Cajero,

Psychoneuroendocrinology

2011

163

Maternal defence as an emotional stressor in female rats: correlation of neuroendocrine and behavioural parameters and involvement of brain oxytocin

Inga D. Neumann, Nicola Toschi, Frauke Ohl,

European Journal of Neuroscience

2001

156

Prolactin Prevents Chronic Stress-Induced Decrease of Adult Hippocampal Neurogenesis and Promotes Neuronal Fate

Luz Torner, Sandra Karg, Annegret Blume,

Journal of Neuroscience

2009

152

The prolactin gene is expressed in the hypothalamic-neurohypophyseal system and the protein is processed into a 14-kDa fragment with activity like 16-kDa prolactin.

Carmen Clapp, Luz Torner, Gabriel Gutiérrez‐Ospina,

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

1994

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