Objective: To evaluate the role of kangaroo mother care (KMC) on growth and breast
feeding rates in very low birth weight (VLBW) neonates. Materials and methods: A literature …

Background: Premature infants and their parents experience significant stress related to
separation and lifesaving procedures. While evidence suggests that skin-to-skin contact …

Measurement of peptides such as oxytocin in plasma is a critical challenge in clinical
research because of their extreme low concentrations as well as the tremendous …

Background and purpose To investigate whether Kangaroo care (KC) influences the salivary
oxytocin (OT) concentration in preterm infants, and which correlates affect the OT response …

Extremely premature infants are at great risk for poor neurodevelopmental outcomes, in part
because neurologic structures designed to mature in the womb must now do so in the …

Aim: To investigate how product design can be used to improve parent–infant bonding in a
neonatal intensive care unit. Background: Impaired parent–infant bonding is an inevitable …

Background Oxytocin (OT), an affiliation hormone released during supportive social
interactions, provides an exemplar of how social environments are reflected in our …

Psychosocial stress has become a major public health problem1–3 with serious
consequences such as stress adjustment disorders, 4 burnout, 5 anxiety, 6 depression, 7 …

Bioanalysis quantitatively measures xenobiotics and biotics in biological systems. In
biological matrixes, the target analytes coexist with much higher concentrations of …

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Overview Oxytocin is an ancient hormone, in evolutionary terms, which was previously thought …