In euthyroid rats, intracerebroventricular oxytocin changed plasma TSH, free T4 and free T3 inconsistently, with no parallel between hormones.
In plain wordsIn rats, oxytocin given into the brain changed thyroid hormone levels in no consistent pattern.
- Peptide
- Oxytocin
- Outcome
- MixedTSH, FT4 and FT3 plasma levels
- Study
ratn: not reported in source
euthyroid rats- Outcome group
- Thyroid function · Endocrine and hormones
- Studied dose
- similar to AVP (0.5 ng or 5 ng) · intracerebroventricularAs given in this study (rat).
Source sentences
The effects of OT injected i.c.v. in similar doses were not consistent (there was no parallel between the changes of respective hormones plasma levels).
1 context sentence(design, population, supporting numbers)
The effects of arginine vasopressin (AVP) and oxytocin (OT) upon thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH), free thyroxine (FT4) and free triiodothyronine (FT3) release were studied in euthyroid rats.