A prolonged latent phase: An early career in oxytocin during birth

Close encounters with oxytocin

“…Oxytocin was a smaller, less complex molecule than insulin, but would earn for du Vigneaud the 1955 Nobel prize in Medicine. This also allowed the synthesis of oxytocin [ 6 , 7 ], launched a new era of biological chemistry and changed forever human birth practices [ 8 ].…”