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“After delivery, the 45 patients whose oxytocin was infused in dextrose had significantly lower serum sodium levels in both mother and baby compared to the 48 patients who had their oxytocin administered in normal saline.”
European journal of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive biology • 1995 | View Paper
“ OT (10 nm) increased basal glucose uptake in CM to 4.0 +/- 0.2 fmol/mg protein, with OT-GKR (10 nm) elevating it to 5.3 +/- 0.4 fmol/mg protein (P < 0.001) in comparison with 2.2 fmol/mg in control cells.”
“In this issue of Diabetes , Klement et al. (5) present evidence that intranasal oxytocin administration modulates insulin/C-peptide secretion and glucose … ”
“Simultaneous [D-3H]glucose infusion indicated that oxytocin also produced a prompt and significant increase in hepatic glucose output with a secondary increase in glucose disappearance rate.”
Molecular and Cellular Endocrinology • 2020 | View Paper
“In animals pretreated with propranolol, captopril and atosiban, an oxytocin antagonist, intravenous infusion of glucose induced hyperglycaemia and after a delay increased the uterine contractile activity.”
European journal of pharmacology • 2005 | View Paper
“On average, there was a significant apparent inhibition of GLU uptake (by 27.2 per cent from control values) by OXY as well as of ALA uptake by OXY (26.”
“Studies available in the literature indicate that oxytocin could alter the circulating levels of testosterone and glucose , the prime determinants of fructose synthesis in the male accessory glands.”