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Brain oxytocin: how puzzle stones from animal studies translate into psychiatry
Molecular Psychiatry, 2020 The neuropeptide oxytocin has attracted great attention of the general public, basic neuroscience researchers, psychologists, and psychiatrists due to its profound pro-social, anxiolytic, and “anti-stress” behavioral and physiological effects, and its ...
V. Grinevich, I. Neumann
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From autism to eating disorders and more: the role of oxytocin in neuropsychiatric disorders [PDF]
, 2016 Oxytocin (oxy) is a pituitary neuropeptide hormone synthesized from the paraventricular and supraoptic nuclei within the hypothalamus. Like other neuropeptides, oxy can modulate a wide range of neurotransmitter and neuromodulator activities. Additionally,
Di Bonaventura, Maria Vittoria Micioni +3 more
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Oman Medical Journal, 2015 Objective: Induction of labor (IOL), using intravenous oxytocin, is the artificial initiation of labor before its spontaneous onset for the purpose of delivery of the fetoplacental unit.
Seema Chopra +3 more
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American Journal of Physiology-Regulatory, Integrative and Comparative Physiology, 2014 One of the most meaningful results recently achieved in bone research has been to reveal that the pituitary hormones have profound effect on bone, so that the pituitary-bone axis has become one of the major topics in skeletal physiology. Here, we discuss the relevant evidence about the posterior pituitary hormone oxytocin (OT), previously thought to ...
Colaianni G. +3 more
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Oxytocin pathway gene networks in the human brain
Nature Communications, 2019 Oxytocin is a neuropeptide involved in animal and human reproductive and social behavior. Three oxytocin signaling genes have been frequently implicated in human social behavior: OXT (structural gene for oxytocin), OXTR (oxytocin receptor), and CD38 ...
D. Quintana +8 more
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Nature Communications, 2020 Could nose-to-brain pathways mediate the effects of peptides such as oxytocin (OT) on brain physiology when delivered intranasally? We address this question by contrasting two methods of intranasal administration (a standard nasal spray, and a nebulizer ...
D. Martins +17 more
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Skeletal muscle: a significant novel neurohypophyseal hormone-secreting organ [PDF]
, 2019 Vasopressin (arg8-vasopressin) and oxytocin are closely relalated hormones, synthesized as pre-hormones in the magnocellular neurons of the paraventricular Q6 and supraoptic nuclei of the hypothalamus.
Dario Coletti +6 more
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ASN Neuro, 2020 Oxytocin, a hypothalamic neuropeptide essential for breastfeeding, is mainly produced in oxytocin neurons in the supraoptic nucleus (SON) and paraventricular nucleus.
Dongyang Li +8 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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Attachment style moderates the effects of oxytocin on social behaviors and cognitions during social rejection: applying an RDoC framework to social anxiety [PDF]
, 2014 Whereas the DSM categorizes individuals with similar self-reported symptoms, the Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) offers a new approach for classifying mental disorders based on dimensions of observable behaviors and neurobiological measures.
Fang, Angela +3 more
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