In healthy men, oral ipsapirone stimulated release of the body's own oxytocin, less robustly and with more baseline variation than other pituitary hormones.
In plain wordsIn healthy men, the drug ipsapirone raised the body's own oxytocin, but less strongly and less consistently than other hormones.
- Peptide
- Oxytocin
- Outcome
- IncreasePlasma oxytocin release after ipsapirone
- Study
n = 12
- Comparator
- Placebo
- Outcome group
- Sex hormones and fertility · Endocrine and hormones
Source sentences
Release of the posterior pituitary hormone oxytocin was also stimulated, but less robustly and with more baseline variation.
1 context sentence(design, population, supporting numbers)
We used the 5-HT1A receptor partial agonist ipsapirone (20 mg) as an oral serotonergic challenge drug in a random-order, double-blind placebo-controlled study of 12 healthy men.
This result measures the body's own Oxytocin. Nobody was given the peptide. It is not evidence about taking it.