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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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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 [PDF]

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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Oxytocin exerts harmful cardiac repolarization prolonging effects in drug-induced LQTS [PDF]

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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Buccal Oxytocin [PDF]

The Lancet, 1964
T. M. McCalla, F. A. Haskins
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The association between salivary oxytocin, age, and puberty in children with and without OCD [PDF]

Scientific Reports
The oxytocin system has been thought to contribute to obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Few studies, only involving adults, have investigated this hypothesis and have found inconsistent results regarding oxytocin system activity and OCD.
Anna-Rosa Cecilie Mora-Jensen, Line Katrine Harder Clemmensen, Manja Gersholm Grønberg, Eli R. Lebowitz, Daniel S. Quintana, Niklas Rye Jørgensen, Charlotte Sewerin Larsen, Lasse Kristoffer Bak, Gitte Lund Christensen, Linea Pretzmann, Valdemar Uhre, Sofie Heidenheim Christensen, Camilla Uhre, Nicoline Løcke Jepsen Korsbjerg, Christine Lykke Thoustrup, Julie Hagstrøm, Melanie Ritter, Kerstin Jessica Plessen, Anne Katrine Pagsberg, Nicole Nadine Lønfeldt   +19 more
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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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Buccal Oxytocin [PDF]

BMJ, 1965
G. W. Theobald
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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 oxytocin paradox [PDF]

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2014
In 2005, Kosfeld et al. published their now seminal paper showing that intranasal oxytocin (OXT) administration increased interpersonal trust (Kosfeld et al., 2005). This finding spawned broad interest into the effects of OXT on social and emotional behavior in humans (Bos et al., 2012), and its implications for translational medicine (Meyer-Lindenberg
Richard A.I. Bethlehem, Simon eBaron-Cohen, Simon eBaron-Cohen, Jack evan Honk, Jack evan Honk, Bonnie eAuyeung, Bonnie eAuyeung, Peter A. Bos, Peter A. Bos   +8 more
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A Highly Potent Analogue of Oxytocin, Desamino-oxytocin

Journal of Biological Chemistry, 1962
Derek B. Hope, V. V. Sreerama Murti, Vincent du Vigneaud   +2 more
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