Concerns regarding a drought in psychopharmacology have risen from many quarters. From
one perspective, the wellspring of bedrock medications for anxiety disorders, depression …

Of the numerous neuropeptides identified in the central nervous system, only a few are
involved in the control of sexual behaviour. Among these, the most studied are oxytocin …

Preterm birth (delivery at less than 37 weeks of gestation) is the leading cause of infant
mortality worldwide. So far, the application of animal models to understand human birth …

Oxytocin (OXT) has drawn increasing attention as a developmentally relevant neuropeptide
given its role in the brain regulation of social behavior. It has been suggested that OXT plays …

Although the onset of spontaneous human parturition has long been known to occur
preferentially during the nighttime and early morning hours, no convincing physiological …

Recently, several studies have shown different conclusions regarding the effect of oxytocin
(OT) on the social behaviors of male mice. Most of these studies used exogenous OT, but …

Central oxytocin (OT) and arginine-vasopressin (AVP) have been shown to play an
important role in sexual behavior and neuroendocrine secretion in rodents. The results of …

8.1 Introduction u: 4 “Safety in numbers. Pack mentality."“All for one and one for all." Our
language is full of phrases like these, expressing the almost instinctual human …

In daily obstetric practice, oxytocin is one of the most frequently used drugs to stimulate
uterine contraction. However, uterine sensitivity to oxytocin is profoundly different among …

Oxytocin knockout (OT KO) mice acutely consume inappropriate amounts of sodium
following overnight water deprivation suggesting that oxytocinergic neurons inhibit …