Sexual and reproductive health
Oxytocin
Also called Pitocin, Syntocinon
per administration
A human trial worked out how much to take and how often, so a dosing schedule is shown.
Licensed as a medicine in the US and EU.
The human evidence for Oxytocin used the intravenous route. The draw worked out here assumes a subcutaneous injection, so the amount is not a direct read-across.
Work out your draw
These numbers are a starting point — change any of them.
- Concentration
- 0.67mg/mL
- Volume per draw
- 0.03mL
- Units to dial
- 3
- Doses per cartridge
- 100
Vial label
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Published research contexts for Oxytocin describe 20–40 mcg per administration. Descriptive only, not a recommendation.
Only a few minutes in plasma, so any curve here is a brief spike.
A nonapeptide hormone, licensed as a medicine and given by intravenous infusion, intramuscularly, or intranasally in research; amounts are usually stated in international units. No subcutaneous schedule is established, so no schedule table is shown.
Modelled level — every day
1× is the peak after a single dose.
- Steady-state peak
- 0.97× single dose
- Time to steady state
- 1hours
- Administrations
- 7/ week
Read off the modelled curve, not an even-interval formula
About five half-lives
Where these numbers come from
- Oxytocin (Pitocin / Syntocinon) product and intranasal-research literatureDelivered intravenously, intramuscularly, or intranasally; there is no subcutaneous dosing schedule.