{"id":147504,"date":"2022-10-04T09:22:19","date_gmt":"2022-10-04T14:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/love-hormone-oxytocin-may-help-mend-broken-hearts-literally-lab-study-suggests"},"modified":"2022-10-04T09:22:19","modified_gmt":"2022-10-04T14:22:19","slug":"love-hormone-oxytocin-may-help-mend-broken-hearts-literally-lab-study-suggests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/10\/love-hormone-oxytocin-may-help-mend-broken-hearts-literally-lab-study-suggests","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Love hormone\u2019 oxytocin may help mend broken hearts (literally), lab study suggests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/love-hormone-oxytocin-may-help-mend-broken-hearts-literally-lab-study-suggests2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Oxytocin, sometimes called the \u201clove hormone,\u201d may help heal broken hearts \u2014 literally. In a new study of zebrafish and human cells, scientists found that the brain-made hormone may help heart tissue regenerate after injury and, in theory, could someday be used in the treatment of heart attacks, according to the researchers.<\/p>\n<p>Because the new study was conducted in fish tanks and lab dishes, however, this theoretical treatment is still far from realization.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oxytocin, sometimes called the \u201clove hormone,\u201d may help heal broken hearts \u2014 literally. In a new study of zebrafish and human cells, scientists found that the brain-made hormone may help heart tissue regenerate after injury and, in theory, could someday be used in the treatment of heart attacks, according to the researchers. Because the new [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":413,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-147504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/413"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=147504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=147504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=147504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=147504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}