In patients with fibromyalgia, the body's own oxytocin levels showed no significant change during balneotherapy or mud-bath therapy.
In plain wordsIn patients with fibromyalgia, the body's own oxytocin levels did not change significantly during spa treatments.
- Peptide
- Oxytocin
- Outcome
- No significant changeOxytocin levels during balneotherapy or mud-bath therapy
- Study
n = 41
- Outcome group
- Receptor activity and mechanism · Endocrine and hormones
Source sentences
while no significant change in oxytocin levels, ATP levels and serotonin transporter were detected.
3 context sentences(design, population, supporting numbers)
Forty-one FM patients (39 females, 2 males), who fulfilled the American College of Rheumatology criteria received a 2-week thermal therapy programme consisting of therapy once daily for 6 days/week.
Twenty-one patients received mud-bath treatment, while the other twenty balneotherapy.
Oxytocin, brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF), ATP and serotonin transporter levels during therapy were assayed.
This result measures the body's own Oxytocin. Nobody was given the peptide. It is not evidence about taking it.