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Oxytocin, feeding and satiety [PDF]

Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2013
Oxytocin neurones have a physiological role in food intake and energy balance. Central administration of oxytocin is powerfully anorexigenic, reducing food intake and meal duration.
Nancy eSabatier, Gareth eLeng, John eMenzies   +2 more
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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, Phyllis eZelkowitz, Togas eTulandi, Barbara eHayton, Nancy eFeeley, C. Sue eCarter, Lawrence eJoseph, Hossein ePournajafi-Nazarloo, Erin eYong Ping, Haim eAbenhaim, Ian eGold   +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, Pavan S Upadhyayula, Ju Li   +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, Yuanzhong Xu, Yaming Zhu, Amy K Sutton, Rongjie Zhao, Bradford B Lowell, David P Olson, Qingchun Tong   +7 more
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Intranasal Oxytocin and Physical Intimacy for Dermatological Wound Healing and Neuroendocrine Stress: A Randomized Clinical Trial. [PDF]

JAMA Psychiatry
Schneider E, Hernández C, Brock R, Eckstein M, Bodenmann G, Heinrichs M, Ehlert U, Läuchli S, Ditzen B.   +8 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, Kazunari Miyamichi, Kengo Inada   +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, Ilona Bodi, Tibor Hornyik, Gerlind Franke, Stefanie Perez-Feliz, R. Lewetag, Robin Moss, Alessandro Castiglione, David Ziupa, Manfred Zehender, Michael Brunner, Christoph Bode, Katja E. Odening   +12 more
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α‐Melanocyte‐stimulating hormone inhibition of oxytocin neurons switches to excitation in late pregnancy and lactation

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, Matthew K. Kirchner, Meng Zhang, Rachael A. Augustine, Javier E. Stern, Colin H. Brown   +5 more
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Maternal and newborn plasma oxytocin levels in response to maternal synthetic oxytocin administration during labour, birth and postpartum – a systematic review with implications for the function of the oxytocinergic system

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, Kerstin Uvnäs-Moberg, Zada Pajalic, Karolina Luegmair, Anette Ekström-Bergström, Anna Dencker, Claudia Massarotti, Alicja Kotlowska, Leonie Callaway, Sandra Morano, Ibone Olza, Claudia Meier Magistretti   +11 more
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