In immunoperoxidase-stained median eminence sections from fetal and neonatal rats, endogenous oxytocin was not detected until the 8th day after birth.
In plain wordsIn lab tests of rat tissue, the body's own oxytocin was not detected in the median eminence until day 8 after birth.
- Peptide
- Oxytocin
- Outcome
- Not applicableOxytocin detection in the median eminence
- Study
ratn: not reported in source
developing rat brain- Outcome group
- Endogenous peptide levels · Endocrine and hormones
Source sentences
Vasopressin and oxytocin were not detected until after birth, on the 4th and 8th days respectively.
1 context sentence(design, population, supporting numbers)
Transverse sections of the median eminence from fetal and neonatal rats were examined by the immunoperoxidase technique to detect the presence of oxytocin, vasopressin and neurophysin.
This result measures the body's own Oxytocin. Nobody was given the peptide. It is not evidence about taking it.