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“Coadministration of OT and opioid blocker leads to supralinear enhancement of prolonged and selective attention to a live partner and increases interactive gaze after critical social events.”
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences • 2017 | View Paper
“Pretreatment of atosiban, the specific OTR antagonist, and TTX, the blocker of voltage-dependent sodium channel on nerve fiber, attenuated the excitatory effect of OT on colon motility.”
Indian journal of medical sciences • 1992 | View Paper
“Administration of the beta-adrenergic antagonist propranolol (400 micrograms) 15 min before the beginning of the experiment completely blocked the inhibitory effects of OT on ACTH secretion and in fact unmasked the stimulatory effects of OT normally seen in conscious animals and in vitro.”
“Additionally, … beta-blocker prophylaxis led to a reduced stillbirth rate (7.1% vs. 8.3%), caused less … for external aid (6.1% vs. 7.8%), decreased the use of oxytocine (28.9% vs. 34.8%) and managed to diminish the occurrence of puerperal disorders (15.5% vs. 19.5%).”