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Investigators at Wright State University release new data on life sciences therapy

Published in Drug Week, December 22nd, 2006

Fresh data on life sciences are presented in the report "Urinary oxytocin as a non-invasive biomarker for neurohypophyseal hormone secretion." According to recent research from the United States, "The objective was to characterize the urinary oxytocin (OT) system with the goal of using it as a biomarker for neurohypophyseal peptide secretion. We studied urinary OT secretion in mice under three conditions: (1) in OT gene deletion mice (OT -/-) which lack the ability to produce the peptide; (2) after arterial vascular infusion of OT and (3) after physiological stimulation with consumption of 2% sodium chloride."

"OT was measured by radioimmunoassay (RIA) and...

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