In healthy young men, plasma and salivary oxytocin levels did not correlate, including with a time lag of 15 or 30 minutes.
In plain wordsIn healthy young men, the body's own oxytocin in blood and saliva did not match, even with a 15 or 30 minute lag.
- Peptide
- Oxytocin
- Outcome
- No significant changeCorrelation of plasma and salivary oxytocin
- Study
n: not reported in source
- Outcome group
- Endogenous peptide levels · Endocrine and hormones
Source sentences
Plasma and salivary OT levels did not correlate even when considering a time lag of 15 or 30 minutes.
1 context sentence(design, population, supporting numbers)
In order to shed light on the question whether salivary and plasma OT levels correlate, we designed an experiment where healthy young men had to look at a presentation of trustworthy faces on a computer screen (faces were taken from an established database in trust research). During three points in…
This result measures the body's own Oxytocin. Nobody was given the peptide. It is not evidence about taking it.