The neuropeptide oxytocin facilitates pro-social behavior and prevents social avoidance in rats and mice

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 36, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 2159-2168

  Lukas, Michael ^a   Toth, Iulia ^a   Reber, Stefan O ^a   Slattery, David A ^a   Veenema, Alexa H ^a,b   Neumann, Inga D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF REGENSBURG   (Germany)

^b BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

amygdala; anxiety; social defeat; social interaction; Social preference; vasopressin

Indexed keywords

HORMONE RECEPTOR BLOCKING AGENT; OXYTOCIN; OXYTOCIN ANTAGONIST; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR; PENTETRAZOLE; VASOPRESSIN RECEPTOR ANTAGONIST;

AMYGDALOID NUCLEUS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG EFFECT; HUMAN; MALE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SOCIAL AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DISABILITY; SOCIAL PHOBIA; SOCIAL STRESS;

ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; MALE; MICE; MICE, INBRED C57BL; NEUROPEPTIDES; OXYTOCIN; RATS; RATS, WISTAR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL FACILITATION;

EID: 80052748268     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2011.95     Document Type: Article

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