UQ scientists created gut-stable oxytocin-based pills to treat chronic abdominal pain safely and effectively, offering a new alternative to opioids and anti-inflammatories. Researchers have developed ...

The finding that temperature influences how glutamate binds to neuronal receptor proteins to initiate ... (PAMs), which block a process called desensitization, in which AMPARs close their ion ...

In another part of the study, the team searched for a mechanism that would allow embryos to react to an oxytocin surge. They found that the hormone can bind to special proteins called receptors on the ...

Embryos without oxytocin receptors can still undergo diapause, Chao noted, so there are probably multiple signals that can trigger the pause. However, oxytocin seems to be important for the ...

When the researchers turned off oxytocin receptors in the mouse embryos, they found that only 11% survived diapause, compared with 42% of the embryos with working oxytocin receptors.

Oxytocin is a critical modulator of emotions. OXTR, the oxytocin receptor, may also be a promising candidate for treating alcohol withdrawal symptoms. Previous studies indicated that people with ...

in Neuron has turned 40 years of oxytocin research on its head by showing that voles without oxytocin receptors still form pair bonds. The finding might hold clues as to why researchers have had mixed ...

These results presented a complex picture. Antagonizing oxytocin and vasopressin receptors with atosiban abolished the known effect of estratetraenol on heterosexual males (i.e. biasing them toward ...

The oxytocin receptor (OXTR) is a G protein-coupled receptor ... In order to trace the dynamic processing of the OXTR throughout the cell, we will focus on the process of receptor desensitization, ...