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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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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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Comprehensive Psychoneuroendocrinology, 2023 The mammalian host microbiome affects many targets throughout the body, at least in part through an integrated gut-brain-immune axis and neuropeptide hormone oxytocin. It was discovered in animal models that microbial symbionts, such as Lactobacillus reuteri, leverage perinatal niches to promote multigenerational good health and reproductive fitness ...
Bernard J. Varian +2 more
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Oxytocin, vasopressin, and social behavior: from neural circuits to clinical opportunities.
Endocrinology, 2022 Oxytocin and vasopressin are peptide hormones secreted from the pituitary that are well known for their peripheral endocrine effects on childbirth/nursing and blood pressure/urine concentration, respectively.
Nicole Rigney +3 more
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Intranasal Oxytocin in Children and Adolescents with Autism Spectrum Disorder.
New England Journal of Medicine, 2021 BACKGROUND Experimental studies and small clinical trials have suggested that treatment with intranasal oxytocin may reduce social impairment in persons with autism spectrum disorder.
L. Sikich +33 more
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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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A Highly Potent Analogue of Oxytocin, Desamino-oxytocin
Journal of Biological Chemistry, 1962 Derek B. Hope +2 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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Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2021 The neuropeptide oxytocin acts as a hormone and a neuromodulator, influencing a multitude of human social behaviors, including reproduction. During childbirth and the postpartum period, it plays a key role in regulating and controlling processes that ...
M. H. Walter, H. Abele, C. Plappert
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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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