ArticleEMBO reports2013
The biochemistry of love: an oxytocin hypothesis.
Article in EMBO reports, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Who cites it
21 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Association of Oxytocin Receptor Gene (OXTR) rs53576 Polymorphism with Sociality: A Meta-Analysis.PloS one · 2015Pooled it
- Hormonal contraceptive use is associated with love intensity across 51 countries.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- An Epigenetic Switch for Sex-Specific Brain Resilience in Stroke: Targeting HDAC2 to Amplify Endogenous Oxytocin Signaling.ACS central science · 2026Article
- Oxytocin attenuates isolation-evoked emotional and social behavioral dysregulation through neural, immune, and microbiota mechanisms.Translational psychiatry · 2026Article
- Modulation of strategic status signaling: oxytocin changes men's fluctuations of status products preferences in their female partners' menstrual cycle.Psychopharmacology · 2025Article
- Oxytocin, Vasopressin and Stress: A Hormetic Perspective.Current issues in molecular biology · 2025Review
- What Is the Link of Closeness and Jealousy in Romantic Relationships?Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Prenatal opioid exposure alters pain perception and increases long-term health risks in infants with neonatal opioid withdrawal syndrome.Frontiers in pain research (Lausanne, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Examining the Relations Between Children's Vagal Flexibility Across Social Stressor Tasks and Parent- and Clinician-Rated Anxiety Using Baseline Data from an Early Intervention for Inhibited Preschoolers.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2023Article
- What's love got to do with jealousy?Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
- Witches, potions, and metabolites: an overview from a medicinal perspective.RSC medicinal chemistry · 2022Review
- The Importance of Experimental Investigation of the CNS Oxytocin System.Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) · 2022Article
- The Logical Case for Love as an Ingredient in Policy Formulation After COVID-19.Global policy · 2020Article
- Psychobiology of Attachment and Trauma-Some General Remarks From a Clinical Perspective.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2019Article
- Mechanistic substrates of a life history transition in male prairie voles: Developmental plasticity in affiliation and aggression corresponds to nonapeptide neuronal function.Hormones and behavior · 2018Article
- Ethnopharmacology of Love.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2018Review
- I love you from the bottom of my hypothalamus: The role of stress physiology in romantic pair bond formation and maintenance.Social and personality psychology compass · 2017Article
- Endogenous Oxytocin, Vasopressin, and Aggression in Domestic Dogs.Frontiers in psychology · 2017Article
- Love Influences Reproductive Success in Humans.Frontiers in psychology · 2017Article
- Compared to what: What can we say about nonapeptide function and social behavior without a frame of reference?Current opinion in behavioral sciences · 2015Article
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