Professor, Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Endocrinology
Dr. Janet A. Amico, MD
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Dr. Janet A. Amico is an expert in the field of Endocrinology. She over the years received 1 awards: "Top MD". Janet Amico is a published doctor and has 101 publications published. The lastest was: 'Concentrations of leptin in the serum of pregnant, lactating, and cycling rats and of leptin messenger ribonucleic acid in rat placental tissue.'
Publications
- Voluntary Sodium Ingestion in Wild-Type and Oxytocin Knockout Mice.
- Evidence of dysregulated peripheral oxytocin release among depressed women.
- Oxytocin knockout mice demonstrate enhanced intake of sweet and nonsweet carbohydrate solutions.
- Activation of pregnane X receptor disrupts glucocorticoid and mineralocorticoid homeostasis.
- Sodium ingestion in oxytocin knockout mice.
- Enhanced initial and sustained intake of sucrose solution in mice with an oxytocin gene deletion.
- Dehydration anorexia is attenuated in oxytocin-deficient mice.
- Oxytocinergic activity is linked to lower blood pressure and vascular resistance during stress in postmenopausal women on estrogen replacement.
- Enhanced corticosterone concentrations and attenuated Fos expression in the medial amygdala of female oxytocin knockout mice exposed to psychogenic stress.
- Centrally administered oxytocin elicits exaggerated grooming in oxytocin null mice.
- Paroxetine-induced hyponatremia in older adults: a 12-week prospective study.
- Cholecystokinin and D-fenfluramine inhibit food intake in oxytocin-deficient mice.
- Female oxytocin-deficient mice display enhanced anxiety-related behavior.
- Influence of DHEA administration on 24-hour cortisol concentrations.
- Consumption of solutions containing sodium chloride is enhanced in female oxytocin-deficient mice.
- Application of semisimultaneous midazolam administration for hepatic and intestinal cytochrome P450 3A phenotyping.
- Estradiol and progesterone regulate oxytocin receptor binding and expression in human breast cancer cell lines.
- Adult attachment predicts maternal brain and oxytocin response to infant cues.
- Effects of partner support on resting oxytocin, cortisol, norepinephrine, and blood pressure before and after warm partner contact.
- Conditional oxytocin receptor knockout mice: targeting the forebrain to understand behavior.
- Oxytocinergic regulation of cardiovascular function: studies in oxytocin-deficient mice.
- Oxytocin and prolactin responses associated with nipple stimulation contraction stress tests.
- Supporting families of critically ill children.
- Oxytocin augmentation of dysfunctional labor. IV. Oxytocin pharmacokinetics.
- Deficiency in mouse oxytocin prevents milk ejection, but not fertility or parturition.
- Targeted reduction of oxytocin expression provides insights into its physiological roles.
- Severe group Y meningococcal disease among civilians.
- Intracerebroventricular administration of the prolactin (PRL) receptor antagonist, S179D PRL, disrupts parturition in rats.
- Preliminary evidence that plasma oxytocin levels are elevated in major depression.
- Oxytocin knockout mice: a model for studying stress-related and ingestive behaviours.
- Corticosterone release in oxytocin gene deletion mice following exposure to psychogenic versus non-psychogenic stress.
- Salivary cortisol is associated with diagnosis and severity of late-life generalized anxiety disorder.
- More frequent partner hugs and higher oxytocin levels are linked to lower blood pressure and heart rate in premenopausal women.
- Corticosterone release is heightened in food or water deprived oxytocin deficient male mice.
- Oxytocin null mice ingest enhanced amounts of sweet solutions during light and dark cycles and during repeated shaker stress.
- Effects of emotion on oxytocin, prolactin, and ACTH in women.
- Paroxetine-induced hyponatremia in the elderly due to the syndrome of inappropriate secretion of antidiuretic hormone (SIADH).
- Deficits in plasma oxytocin responses and increased negative affect, stress, and blood pressure in mothers with cocaine exposure during pregnancy.
- Mice deficient in oxytocin manifest increased saline consumption following overnight fluid deprivation.
- Enhanced salt intake in oxytocin deficient mice.
- Effect of centrally administered opioid receptor agonists on CSF and plasma oxytocin concentrations in dogs.
- Oxytocin responsivity in mothers of infants: a preliminary study of relationships with blood pressure during laboratory stress and normal ambulatory activity.
- Effect of paroxetine on plasma vasopressin and water load testing in elderly individuals.
- The neurosteroid allopregnanolone modulates oxytocin expression in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus.
- An ovarian steroid hormone regimen that increases hypothalamic oxytocin expression alters [3H] muscimol binding in the hypothalamic supraoptic nucleus of the female rat.
- The effects of progesterone on oxytocin mRNA levels in the paraventricular nucleus of the female rat can be altered by the administration of diazepam or RU486.
- Progesterone regulates hypothalamic oxytocin mRNA levels through gamma aminobutyric acid.
- Concentrations of leptin in the serum of pregnant, lactating, and cycling rats and of leptin messenger ribonucleic acid in rat placental tissue.
- The variable penetrance and spectrum of manifestations of multiple endocrine neoplasia type 1.
- Vasopressin, oxytocin, corticotrophin-releasing factor, and sodium responses during fluoxetine administration in the rat.
- The duration of estradiol and progesterone exposure prior to progesterone withdrawal regulates oxytocin mRNA levels in the paraventricular nucleus of the rat.
- Vasopressin can increase coronary perfusion pressure during human cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
- Time course of induction of oxytocin messenger ribonucleic acid levels in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus of ovariectomized rats following gonadal steroid adm...
- Administration of long-term estradiol and progesterone followed by progesterone withdrawal does not alter the plasma oxytocin secretory response to cholecystokinin or ...
- Differential regulation of oxytocin and vasopressin messenger ribonucleic acid levels by gonadal steroids in postpartum rats.
- Sequential exposure to estrogen and testosterone (T) and subsequent withdrawal of T increases the level of arginine vasopressin messenger ribonucleic acid in the hypot...
- Effect of gonadal steroids upon hypothalamic oxytocin expression.
- Sequential estrogen and progesterone (P) followed by P withdrawal increases the level of oxytocin messenger ribonucleic acid in the hypothalamic paraventricular nucleu...
- Reversal of fasting-induced suppression of luteinizing hormone (LH) secretion in male rhesus monkeys by intragastric nutrient infusion: evidence for rapid stimulation ...
- The oxytocin secretory response during suckling in the hypoosmolar lactating rat.
- Amyloid deposits in a prolactin-producing pituitary adenoma.
- Gonadal steroid modulation of oxytocin and vasopressin gene expression in the hypothalamus of the osmotically stimulated rat.
- Suckling-induced attenuation of plasma cortisol concentrations in postpartum lactating women.
- Oxytocin and vasopressin secretion in monkeys administered apomorphine and a D2 receptor agonist.
- Pattern of oxytocin concentrations in the peripheral blood of healthy women and men: effect of the menstrual cycle and short-term fasting.
- Levels of the oxytocin-associated and vasopressin-associated neurophysins in plasma and their responses in essential hypertension.
- Recent advances in neurohypophyseal research.
- Neurohypophysial hormones in cerebrospinal fluid of adults: absence of arginine vasotocin and of a diurnal rhythm of arginine vasopressin.
- Oxytocin augmentation of dysfunctional labor. V. An alternative oxytocin regimen.
- High pressure liquid chromatographic separation of an oxytocin/arginine vasotocin-like peptide from the plasma of patients with chronic renal failure.
- A novel oxytocin-like and vasotocin-like peptide in human plasma after administration of estrogen.
- A prospective longitudinal study of the release of oxytocin and prolactin in response to infant suckling in long term lactation.
- Thyrotropin and gonadotropin releasing hormones (TRH and GnRH) do not alter levels of oxytocin and oxytocin does not change the response of luteinizing or follicle sti...
- Clearance studies of oxytocin in humans using radioimmunoassay measurements of the hormone in plasma and urine.
- Breast stimulation in cycling women, pregnant women and a woman with induced lactation: pattern of release of oxytocin, prolactin and luteinizing hormone.
- Ampholyte displacement and high pressure liquid chromatographic separation of the estrogen-responsive neurophysin from human plasma.
- The plasma of pregnant women contains a novel oxytocin-vasotocin-like peptide.
- Testosterone and hypothalamic vasopressin expression in the hyponatremic rat.
- Increased accumulation of oxytocin messenger ribonucleic acid in the hypothalamus of the female rat: induction by long term estradiol and progesterone administration a...
- Effect of testosterone and its metabolites upon the level of vasopressin messenger ribonucleic acid in the hypothalamus of the hyperosmotically stimulated male rat.
- Developmental expression and anatomical localization of endothelin-1 messenger ribonucleic acid and immunoreactivity in the rat placenta: a northern analysis and immun...
- Flow cytometric analysis of growth hormone-secreting pituitary adenomas.
- Effect of progesterone on hypothalamic oxytocin messenger ribonucleic acid levels in the lactating rat.
- Cytoplasmic oxytocin and vasopressin gene transcripts decline postpartum in the hypothalamus of the lactating rat.
- Thyroidectomy does not alter hypothalamic oxytocin and vasopressin expression in chronically hypernatremic rats.
- Expression of the endothelin-1 and oxytocin genes in the hypothalamus of the pregnant rat.
- Endothelin-1 gene expression in human pheochromocytoma.
- Hyperthyroxinemia and hypotriiodothyroninemia with clinical euthyroidism.
- Oxytocin in human plasma: correlation with neurophysin and stimulation with estrogen.
- Elevation of oxytocin and the oxytocin-associated neurophysin in the plasma of normal women during midcycle.
- Diabetic management in patients with renal failure.
- Clinical and chemical assessment of thyroid function during therapy with amiodarone.
- Studies of oxytocin in plasma of women during hypocontractile labor.
- A time-dependent peak of oxytocin exists in cerebrospinal fluid but not in plasma of humans.
- High-performance liquid chromatographic characterization of neurophysins in chronic renal failure.
- Amiodarone-associated thyrotoxicosis masquerading as painful thyroiditis.
- Arginine vasotocin and a novel oxytocin-vasotocin-like material in plasma of human newborns.
- Oxytocin and vasopressin are present in human and rat pancreas.
- The effect of oxytocin administration upon the pulsatile secretion of luteinizing hormone in humans.
- Bilateral massive adrenal hemorrhage: early recognition and treatment.
Schools
Med Coll Of Pa
University Health Center
Doctors Specialties
- Endocrinology
Accepted Insurances
Awards
- Top MD
Education
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University of Pittsburgh Medical Center
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