JULY 2, 2024 by University of Cambridge Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public DomainScientists have identified a gene which, when missing or impaired, can cause obesity, behavioral problems and, in mothers, postnatal depression. The discovery, reported in Cell, may have wider implications for the treatment of postnatal depression, with a study in mice suggesting that oxytocin may alleviate...
Researchers identify specific oxytocin neurons in the mouse brain that modulate object recognition memory Peer-Reviewed Publication TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE RESEARCHERS DISCOVER THAT ACTIVATING A SPECIFIC GROUP OF OXYTOCIN NEURONS IN THE MOUSE BRAIN IMPROVES PERFORMANCE IN NOVEL OBJECT RECOGNITION TASKS. CREDIT: AKIYOSHI SAITOH FROM TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE Oxytocin (OXT) is a hormone that...
by Baylor College of Medicine Oxytocin expression and production in the epithelium of the human and mouse gastrointestinal tract. a) log normalized counts of oxytocin expression in human intestinal epithelial cells reported by the scRNA-Seq data from the Gut Cell Atlas.Citation32 Significance values reflect the number of rarefactions (of 10,000) in which the comparison had a...
Peer-Reviewed Publication UNIVERSITY OF BASEL The hormone oxytocin is important for social interaction and to control emotions. A deficiency of this hormone has previously been assumed in various diseases such as autism, but has never been proven. Now, for the first time, researchers from the University of Basel and the University Hospital of Basel have...
by University of California, San Francisco CPK model of the Oxitocin molecule. Credit: CC0 Turning a decades-old dogma on its head, new research from scientists at UC San Francisco and Stanford Medicine shows that the receptor for oxytocin, a hormone considered essential to forming social bonds, may not play the critical role that scientists have assigned to...
A team of international researchers who study how gene mutations associated with autism interfere with social behaviour have found injections of the hormone oxytocin can normalize brain activity. Image credit: Pixabay (Free Pixabay license) The findings, which were presented recently at the 2021 Society for Neuroscience Global Connectome, point to the potential of oxytocin—known to influence behaviours such...
