Neonatal oxytocin manipulations have long-lasting, sexually dimorphic effects on vasopressin receptors

Neuroscience

Volumn 144, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 38-45

  Bales, K L ^a,b   Plotsky, P M ^c   Young, L J ^c,d   Lim, M M ^c,d   Grotte, N ^b   Ferrer, E ^a   Carter, C S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

development; dopamine; monogamy; oxytocin; pair bonding; vasopressin

Indexed keywords

DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR; OXYTOCIN; OXYTOCIN ANTAGONIST; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR; SODIUM CHLORIDE; VASOPRESSIN RECEPTOR; VASOPRESSIN V1 RECEPTOR;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN TISSUE; CINGULATE GYRUS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PRAIRIE; PREOPTIC AREA; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BINDING; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SEX; SEX DIFFERENCE; STRIA TERMINALIS; THALAMUS; VOLE;

ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ARVICOLINAE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GLOBUS PALLIDUS; MALE; MEDIODORSAL THALAMIC NUCLEUS; NEOSTRIATUM; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; ORNIPRESSIN; OXYTOCIN; PREOPTIC AREA; RECEPTORS, DOPAMINE D2; RECEPTORS, VASOPRESSIN; SEPTAL NUCLEI; SEPTUM OF BRAIN; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 33751536301     PISSN: 03064522     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2006.09.009     Document Type: Article

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