{"id":235359,"date":"2026-04-16T15:38:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-16T20:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/oxytocin-signaling-in-adipocytes-is-required-for-normal-milk-fat-production"},"modified":"2026-04-16T15:38:00","modified_gmt":"2026-04-16T20:38:00","slug":"oxytocin-signaling-in-adipocytes-is-required-for-normal-milk-fat-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/04\/oxytocin-signaling-in-adipocytes-is-required-for-normal-milk-fat-production","title":{"rendered":"Oxytocin signaling in adipocytes is required for normal milk fat production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/oxytocin-signaling-in-adipocytes-is-required-for-normal-milk-fat-production2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Online now: Li et al. show that sympathetic-derived oxytocin drives adipose lipolysis to supply triglycerides essential for neonatal growth during lactation. Adipocyte-specific oxytocin receptor (Oxtr) deletion impairs milk lipid content and offspring growth, revealing a new link between maternal oxytocin signaling in adipocytes, mammary metabolism, and neonatal nutrition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Online now: Li et al. show that sympathetic-derived oxytocin drives adipose lipolysis to supply triglycerides essential for neonatal growth during lactation. Adipocyte-specific oxytocin receptor (Oxtr) deletion impairs milk lipid content and offspring growth, revealing a new link between maternal oxytocin signaling in adipocytes, mammary metabolism, and neonatal nutrition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-235359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235359","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\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}