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2025 Nov 28Scientific reports
Elevated oxytocin levels and oxytocin receptor gene expression in female-to-male transgender individuals.
Dastorani M, Shahini N, Livani A et al.
PubMed · PMID 41315578Journal article
2025 Oct 20Current biology : CB
Oxytocin.
Winokur SB, Caslin AY, Davis FM et al.
PubMed · PMID 41118743Review
2025 Nov 10Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)
Fluorescent Peptide Tracers for Simultaneous Oxytocin Receptor Activation and Visualization.
Perisic Böhm M, Kalaba P, Gormal RS et al.
PubMed · PMID 41001975Journal article
2025 Sep 11Science (New York, N.Y.)
Oxytocin signaling regulates maternally directed behavior during early life.
Zelmanoff DD, Bornstein R, Kaufman M et al.
PubMed · PMID 40934325Journal article
2025 Oct 1Cancer research
Oxytocin Receptor Regulates the Hippo/YAP Axis to Drive Hepatocarcinogenesis.
Yang H, Cui J, Su P et al.
PubMed · PMID 40742309Journal article
2025 SepOncogene
The interplay between oxytocin receptor and YAP in regulating gastric cancer progression.
Liu Z, Wang H, Zhang C et al.
PubMed · PMID 40604321Journal article
2025 Apr 29Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Distinct oxytocin signaling pathways synergistically mediate rescue-like behavior in mice.
Zhang FR, Liu J, Wen J et al.
PubMed · PMID 40267134Journal article
2024 Dec 2bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology
Oxytocin receptor controls promiscuity and development in prairie voles.
Sharma R, Berendzen KM, Everitt A et al.
PubMed · PMID 39399774Preprint
2022Biologie aujourd'hui
[Oxytocin and its receptor: molecular and therapeutic approaches].
Hibert M
PubMed · PMID 36744978English Abstract
2022 AugComprehensive psychoneuroendocrinology
Oxytocin and vasotocin receptor variation and the evolution of human prosociality.
Theofanopoulou C, Andirkó A, Boeckx C et al.
PubMed · PMID 35757177Journal article
2022 May 21Pharmaceutics
Impact of Magnesium on Oxytocin Receptor Function.
Bharadwaj VN, Meyerowitz J, Zou B et al.
PubMed · PMID 35631690Journal article
2020 MayTranslational cancer research
BRD9 controls the oxytocin signaling pathway in gastric cancer via CANA2D4, CALML6, GNAO1, and KCNJ5.
Wang Y, Jiang XY, Yu XY
PubMed · PMID 35117701Journal article
2020 JulScience advances
Crystal structure of the human oxytocin receptor.
Waltenspühl Y, Schöppe J, Ehrenmann J et al.
PubMed · PMID 32832646Journal article
2018 Jun 25FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology
Oxytocin-like signaling in ants influences metabolic gene expression and locomotor activity.
Liutkevičiūtė Z, Gil-Mansilla E, Eder T et al.
PubMed · PMID 29939785Journal article
2018 Jul 1Physiological reviews
The Oxytocin Receptor: From Intracellular Signaling to Behavior.
Jurek B, Neumann ID
PubMed · PMID 29897293Review
2014 JunJournal of neuroendocrinology
Oxytocin: its mechanism of action and receptor signalling in the myometrium.
Arrowsmith S, Wray S
PubMed · PMID 24888645Review
2008Progress in brain research
Oxytocin receptor signalling.
Devost D, Wrzal P, Zingg HH
PubMed · PMID 18655881Journal article
2005 AugNihon rinsho. Japanese journal of clinical medicine
[Oxytocin].
Kanuma T
PubMed · PMID 16149499Review
2001 AprPhysiological reviews
The oxytocin receptor system: structure, function, and regulation.
Gimpl G, Fahrenholz F
PubMed · PMID 11274341Review