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Effects of selective serotonin reuptake inhibitor treatment on plasma oxytocin and cortisol in major depressive disorder

BACKGROUND: Oxytocin is known for its capacity to facilitate social bonding, reduce anxiety and for its actions on the stress hypothalamopituitary adrenal (HPA) axis. Since oxytocin can physiologically suppress activity of the HPA axis, clinical applications of this neuropeptide have been proposed i...

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Autores principales: Keating, Charlotte, Dawood, Tye, Barton, David A, Lambert, Gavin W, Tilbrook, Alan J
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2013
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3643878/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23627666
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-244X-13-124