Sentences with phrase «administered oxytocin»

He rounded up 68 male participants (women were excluded because oxytocin increases the risk of miscarriage) and administered oxytocin to half of them through a nasal inhaler.

The compassion degrees in the participant's responses to the stories were analyzed by two psychologists who didn't know whether the patient had been administered oxytocin or the placebo.

Brief report: oxytocin enhances paternal sensitivity to a child with autism: a double - blind within - subject experiment with intranasally administered oxytocin.

Moreover, the research on nasally administered oxytocin suggests that the effects of manipulating oxytocin levels are temporary.

The influence of oxytocin on the perception of faces, emotions, and other social information has been widely studied in recent years by administering oxytocin with a nasal spray.

When a mother dog is stuck in incomplete labor the first thing I do is administer oxytocin and calcium to stimulate uterine contractions.

Not exact matches

Oxytocin helps women get through labour by stimulating uterine contractions, which is why it's sometimes administered (as Pitocin) during labor.

As far as I understand, the claim is that the (allegedly) high levels of oxytocin in the placenta cause the bleeding to stop, however oxytocin is a peptide hormone — like insulin — and can not be administered orally, as it is unable to survive the enzymes in the digestive system.

ETA: Beyond that, even if oxytocin were able to be administered orally, who has time to sit around while the body digests a piece of placenta to extract the required nutrients to stop a PPH?

When economist Michael Kosfeld and his colleagues at the University of Zurich administered nasal sprays containing the hormone oxytocin to a group of test subjects, they became substantially more willing to trust strangers with their money.

When Cox and colleagues infused oxytocin specifically into the nucleus accumbens, a small brain region implicated in drug addiction, they found that it had the same effects as when they administered it systemically.

Although oxytocin administered to rats had no effect on the amount of methamphetamine they wanted when it required minimal effort, it strongly decreased the amount of effort rats were willing to exert to obtain the drug they desired, and it decreased relapse to methamphetamine seeking in both males and females.

The researchers allowed rats to self - administer meth using a paradigm designed to examine individual differences in the rats» drug - taking behavior, then tested the effects of oxytocin on their motivation to acquire the drug.

First a dose of oxytocin was administered to the subjects in a nasal spray; and then a placebo at a later date.

In the present experiment, oxytocin and oxytocin with antagonist were subcutaneously administered to mouse pups between P8 - 9.

A veterinarian can help increase the strength of contractions by administering calcium or oxytocin.