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‘Love hormone’ used a drug lead for inhibiting preterm labour

A team of scientists from Austria, Australia, Denmark, England and…

2 February 2017 | By

A team of scientists from Austria, Australia, Denmark, England and the Czech Republic, led by Christian Gruber from the MedUni Vienna's Institute of Pharmacology, managed to isolate a neuropeptide from ants that is very similar to the human love hormone oxytocin, and the closely related hormone vasopressin.