In male rats, diets with and without soya isoflavones gave no difference in the body's own oxytocin concentrations after handling stress.
In plain wordsIn male rats, a diet with soya isoflavones did not change the body's own oxytocin levels compared with an isoflavone-free diet.
- Peptide
- Oxytocin
- Outcome
- No significant changeOxytocin concentration with iso-150 versus iso-free diet
- Study
ratn: not reported in source
- Comparator
- Isoflavone-free diet
- Outcome group
- Endogenous peptide levels · Endocrine and hormones
Source sentences
The groups did not differ in food or water intake, body weight or oxytocin concentrations.
2 context sentences(design, population, supporting numbers)
To determine whether behaviour in two animal tests of anxiety, and stress hormone production, would differ between rats that were fed a diet which was free of soya isoflavones and other phytoestrogens (iso-free) and those that were fed a diet which contained 150 microg/g of the isoflavones genistein…
Vasopressin and oxytocin concentrations were determined after brief handling stress.
This result measures the body's own Oxytocin. Nobody was given the peptide. It is not evidence about taking it.