What are oxytocin assays measuring? Epitope mapping, metabolites, and comparisons of wildtype & knockout mouse urine
Gitanjali E. Gnanadesikan, Elizabeth A. D. Hammock, Stacey R. Tecot, Rebecca J. Lewis, Russ Hart, Carol Sue Carter, Evan L. MacLean
The paper investigates interference in urinary oxytocin immunoassays using knockout and wildtype mice, finding that common extraction methods fail to eliminate false positives and proposing a new extraction method to reduce interference.
bioRxiv · Mar 3, 2022Neuroscience