Nest making and oxytocin comparably promote wound healing in isolation reared rats

PLoS ONE

Volumn 4, Issue 5, 2009, Pages

  Vitalo, Antonia ^a,b   Fricchione, Jonathan ^a,b   Casali, Monica ^a,b,c   Berdichevsky, Yevgeny ^a,b,c   Hoge, Elizabeth A ^a,c   Rauch, Scott L ^c,d   Berthiaume, Francois ^a,b,c   Yarmush, Martin L ^a,b,c   Benson, Herbert ^a,c   Fricchione, Gregory L ^a,c   Levine, John B ^a,b,c  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b SHRINERS HOSPITALS FOR CHILDREN   (United States)

^c HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^d MCLEAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BETA ACTIN; GENE PRODUCT; NUCLEAR RECEPTOR NUR77; OXYTOCIN; PROTEIN ARC; PROTEIN C FOS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR JUNB; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BURN; CONTROLLED STUDY; EMOTIONAL STRESS; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; GENE EXPRESSION; HIPPOCAMPUS; HYPERACTIVITY; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; NESTING; NONHUMAN; OPEN FIELD BEHAVIOR; OPEN FIELD TEST; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RAT; REARING; SOCIAL ISOLATION; TREATMENT RESPONSE; WOUND HEALING; ANIMAL; HYPOTHALAMUS HYPOPHYSIS SYSTEM; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

ANIMALIA; RATTUS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; HYPOTHALAMO-HYPOPHYSEAL SYSTEM; MALE; OXYTOCIN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 65849214999     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0005523     Document Type: Article

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