Polyvagal theory: A science of safety

SW Porges - Frontiers in integrative neuroscience, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Contemporary strategies for health and wellbeing fail our biological needs by not
acknowledging that feelings of safety emerge from internal physiological states regulated by …

Oxytocin and oxygen: the evolution of a solution to the 'stress of life'

CS Carter, MA Kingsbury - Philosophical Transactions of …, 2022 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Oxytocin (OT) and the OT receptor occupy essential roles in our current understanding of
mammalian evolution, survival, sociality and reproduction. This narrative review examines …

Sex, love and oxytocin: Two metaphors and a molecule

CS Carter - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Dozens of studies, most conducted in the last four decades, have implicated oxytocin, as
well as vasopressin and their receptors, in processes that mediate selective sociality and the …

Potential mechanisms of action and outcomes of equine-assisted Services for Veterans with a history of trauma: a narrative review of the literature

WR Marchand - International Journal of Environmental Research and …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Equine-assisted services (EASs) are being increasingly used as complementary
interventions for military veterans who have experienced trauma. However, there is limited …

Considering hormones as sex-and gender-related factors in biomedical research: challenging false dichotomies and embracing complexity

JS Williams, MR Fattori, IR Honeyborne, SA Ritz - Hormones and Behavior, 2023 - Elsevier
The inclusion of sex and gender considerations in biomedicine has been increasing in light
of calls from research and funding agencies, governmental bodies, and advocacy groups to …

[HTML][HTML] The physiology and pharmacology of oxytocin in labor and in the peripartum period

K Uvnäs-Moberg - American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 2023 - Elsevier
Oxytocin is a reproductive hormone implicated in the process of parturition and widely used
during labor. Oxytocin is produced within the supraoptic nucleus and paraventricular …

Oxytocin dynamics in the body and brain regulated by the receptor for advanced glycation end-products, CD38, CD157, and nicotinamide riboside

H Higashida, K Furuhara, O Lopatina… - Frontiers in …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Investigating the neurocircuit and synaptic sites of action of oxytocin (OT) in the brain is
critical to the role of OT in social memory and behavior. To the same degree, it is important to …

The evolved nest, oxytocin functioning, and prosocial development

MS Tarsha, D Narvaez - Frontiers in Psychology, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Prosociality, orientation to attuned, empathic relationships, is built from the ground up,
through supportive care in early life that fosters healthy neurobiological structures that shape …

[HTML][HTML] Close encounters with oxytocin

CS Carter - Comprehensive Psychoneuroendocrinology, 2023 - Elsevier
The purpose of this narrative review is to use a personal perspective to describe
unanticipated and pivotal findings that drew the author into the study oxytocin. Oxytocin was …

Oxytocin Modulates Osteogenic Commitment in Human Adipose-Derived Stem Cells

G Petrocelli, PM Abruzzo, L Pampanella… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
Human adipose-derived stem cells (hASCs) are commonly harvested in minimally invasive
contexts with few ethical concerns, and exhibit self-renewal, multi-lineage differentiation …