Social experience influences hypothalamic oxytocin in the WHHL rabbit

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 31, Issue 9, 2006, Pages 1062-1075

  Paredes, Jamespaul ^a   Szeto, Angela ^a   Levine, Jon E ^b   Zaias, Julia ^c   Gonzales, Julie A ^a   Mendez, Armando J ^d   Llabre, Maria M ^a   Schneiderman, Neil ^a   McCabe, Philip M ^a  

^a Department of Biology   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI MILLER SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Atherosclerosis; Catecholamines; Microdialysis; Oxytocin; Social experience; WHHL rabbits

Indexed keywords

CATECHOLAMINE; GLUCOCORTICOID; OXYTOCIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; AORTA ATHEROSCLEROSIS; ARTICLE; ATHEROGENESIS; ATHEROSCLEROSIS; BLOOD ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIALYSATE; DISEASE COURSE; EXTRACELLULAR FLUID; HYPOTHALAMUS; LABORATORY; MALE; MICRODIALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RABBIT; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS; THALAMUS MIDLINE NUCLEUS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, INBRED STRAINS; ARTERIOSCLEROSIS; CORTICOSTERONE; DISEASE MODELS, ANIMAL; EPINEPHRINE; HYDROCORTISONE; HYPERLIPIDEMIAS; MICRODIALYSIS; NOREPINEPHRINE; OXYTOCIN; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; RABBITS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 33749250346     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2006.06.007     Document Type: Article

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