Salivary oxytocin concentrations in response to running, sexual self-stimulation, breastfeeding and the TSST: The Regensburg Oxytocin Challenge (ROC) study

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 62, Issue , 2015, Pages 381-388

  de Jong, Trynke R ^a   Menon, Rohit ^a   Bludau, Anna ^a   Grund, Thomas ^a   Biermeier, Verena ^a   Klampfl, Stefanie M ^a   Jurek, Benjamin ^a   Bosch, Oliver J ^a   Hellhammer, Juliane ^b   Neumann, Inga D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b Science Park Trier   (Germany)

Author keywords

Challenge; Oxytocin; Radioimmunoassay; Running; Saliva; Sexual self stimulation; TSST

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL MARKER; HYDROCORTISONE; OXYTOCIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BREAST FEEDING; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; EXERCISE TEST; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HOME CARE; HORMONE DETERMINATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LACTATION; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; NORMAL HUMAN; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; OXYTOCIN RELEASE; OXYTOCIN TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOIMMUNOASSAY; REGENSBURG OXYTOCIN CHALLENGE; RUNNING; SALIVA LEVEL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; TRIER SOCIAL STRESS TEST; ADOLESCENT; AGED; CHEMISTRY; MASTURBATION; METABOLISM; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSIOLOGY; SALIVA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BREAST FEEDING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MASTURBATION; MIDDLE AGED; OXYTOCIN; RUNNING; SALIVA; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84947444854     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: 18733360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2015.08.027     Document Type: Article

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