Are behavioral effects of early experience mediated by oxytocin?

Frontiers in Psychiatry

Volumn 2, Issue MAY, 2011, Pages

  Bales, Karen L ^a   Boone, Ericka ^b   Epperson, Pamela ^b   Hoffman, Gloria ^c   Carter, C Sue ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^c MORGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Monogamy; Oxytocin; Parental care; Vasopressin

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESSIN; BRAIN RECEPTOR; CORTICOSTEROID; OXYTOCIN;

ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID RELEASE; EARLY LIFE STRESS; FEMALE; GROOMING; HORMONE DETERMINATION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LIGAND BINDING; MALE; MAZE TEST; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PEPTIDE SYNTHESIS; RECEPTOR BINDING; STRIA TERMINALIS;

EID: 80052754275     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16640640     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2011.00024     Document Type: Article

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