Name: Oxytocin Acetate
Brand: Vial Labs
SKU: OT2
Price: 39.00 EUR
Availability: InStock

Question 1

What is oxytocin?

Accepted Answer

A cyclic nonapeptide hormone made in the hypothalamus and released from the posterior pituitary, acting at its own G-protein-coupled receptor.

Question 2

Why does vasopressin keep coming up?

Accepted Answer

The two peptides differ by just two of nine residues and their receptors cross-react, which makes attributing an effect to one of them genuinely difficult.

Question 3

Why is the behavioural literature contested?

Accepted Answer

Replication has been a recurring problem, traced largely to receptor cross-reactivity and to uncertainty about how much intranasal peptide reaches brain tissue.

Question 4

What does the disulphide bridge do?

Accepted Answer

It closes the ring that gives the molecule its shape. Under reducing conditions it can open, leaving material of correct mass but wrong conformation.

Question 5

Is it an approved medicine?

Accepted Answer

Oxytocin is licensed for obstetric use in most countries. This vial is laboratory research material rather than a medicinal product.

Question 6

What documentation comes with it?

Accepted Answer

A batch certificate of analysis with HPLC purity, linked on this page and verifiable on the testing laboratory's site.