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BMC Pregnancy and Childbirth, 2019 Background Oxytocin is a key hormone in childbirth, and synthetic oxytocin is widely administered to induce or speed labour. Due to lack of synthetized knowledge, we conducted a systematic review of maternal plasma levels of oxytocin during physiological
Kerstin Uvnäs-Moberg +13 more
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Maternal plasma levels of oxytocin during breastfeeding-A systematic review.
PLoS ONE, 2020 IntroductionOxytocin is a key hormone in breastfeeding. No recent review on plasma levels of oxytocin in response to breastfeeding is available.Materials and methodsSystematic literature searches on breastfeeding induced oxytocin levels were conducted ...
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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 ...
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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 +2 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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Oxytocin, Neural Plasticity, and Social Behavior.
Annual Review of Neuroscience, 2021 Oxytocin regulates parturition, lactation, parental nurturing, and many other social behaviors in both sexes. The circuit mechanisms by which oxytocin modulates social behavior are receiving increasing attention.
R. Froemke, L. Young
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Advances in human oxytocin measurement: challenges and proposed solutions
Molecular Psychiatry, 2022 Oxytocin, a neuropeptide known for its role in reproduction and socioemotional processes, may hold promise as a therapeutic agent in treating social impairments in patient populations. However, research has yet to uncover precisely how to manipulate this
Benjamin A. Tabak +8 more
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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 +8 more
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