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Oxytocin in pregnancy and the postpartum: relations to labor and its management [PDF]
Frontiers in Public Health, 2014 The purpose of this study was to examine variations in endogenous oxytocin levels in pregnancy and postpartum state. We also explored the associations between delivery variables and oxytocin levels.
Marie ePrevost +10 more
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Oxytocin is an age-specific circulating hormone that is necessary for muscle maintenance and regeneration [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2014 The regenerative capacity of skeletal muscle declines with age. Previous studies suggest that this process can be reversed by exposure to young circulation; however, systemic age-specific factors responsible for this phenomenon are largely unknown.
Christian Elabd +2 more
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An obligate role of oxytocin neurons in diet induced energy expenditure. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 Oxytocin neurons represent one of the major subsets of neurons in the paraventricular hypothalamus (PVH), a critical brain region for energy homeostasis.
Zhaofei Wu +7 more
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The Neurobiology of Love and Pair Bonding from Human and Animal Perspectives
Biology, 2023 Love is a powerful emotional experience that is rooted in ancient neurobiological processes shared with other species that pair bond. Considerable insights have been gained into the neural mechanisms driving the evolutionary antecedents of love by ...
Sarah A. Blumenthal, Larry J. Young
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The importance of oxytocin neurons in the supraoptic nucleus for breastfeeding in mice.
PLoS ONE, 2023 The hormone oxytocin, secreted from oxytocin neurons in the paraventricular (PVH) and supraoptic (SO) hypothalamic nuclei, promotes parturition, milk ejection, and maternal caregiving behaviors. Previous experiments with whole-body oxytocin knockout mice
Mitsue Hagihara +2 more
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Oxytocin exerts harmful cardiac repolarization prolonging effects in drug-induced LQTS
International Journal of Cardiology: Heart & Vasculature, 2022 Background: Oxytocin is used therapeutically in psychiatric patients. Many of these also receive anti-depressant or anti-psychotic drugs causing acquired long-QT-syndrome (LQTS) by blocking HERG/IKr.
Paul Kreifels +12 more
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Physiological Reports, 2022 Oxytocin is secreted into the periphery by magnocellular neurons of the hypothalamic supraoptic and paraventricular nuclei (SON and PVN) to trigger uterine contraction during birth and milk ejection during suckling.
Michael R. Perkinson +5 more
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BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2023 Background The reproductive hormone oxytocin facilitates labour, birth and postpartum adaptations for women and newborns. Synthetic oxytocin is commonly given to induce or augment labour and to decrease postpartum bleeding.
Sarah Buckley +11 more
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Oxytocin-Trust Link in Oxytocin-Sensitive Participants and Those Without Autistic Traits
Frontiers in Neuroscience, 2021 There have been numerous studies in which the biological role of oxytocin in trusting behavior has been investigated. However, a link between oxytocin and trust in humans was discovered only in one early study.
Hirofumi Kurokawa +7 more
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eLife, 2020 Single measurements of salivary and plasmatic oxytocin are used as indicators of the physiology of the oxytocin system. However, questions remain about whether they are sufficiently stable to provide valid trait markers of the physiology of the oxytocin ...
Daniel Martins +3 more
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