Peripheral oxytocin administration buffers autonomic but not behavioral responses to environmental stressors in isolated prairie voles

Stress

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 149-161

  Grippo, Angela J ^a   Pournajafi Nazarloo, Hossein ^b   Sanzenbacher, Lisa ^b   Trahanas, Diane M ^a   McNeal, Neal ^a   Clarke, Deirdre A ^a   Porges, Stephen W ^b   Sue Carter, C ^b  

^a NORTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Heart rate variability; Oxytocin; Paraventricular nucleus; Residentintruder; Social isolation; Stress

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; NEUROPEPTIDE; OXYTOCIN;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM FUNCTION; BEHAVIOR; BRAIN TISSUE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELEVATED PLUS MAZE TEST; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EXPERIMENTAL TEST; FEMALE; HEART RATE; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HYPOTHALAMIC PARAVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; IMMUNOCOMPETENT CELL; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; INJECTION; NERVE CELL; NEUROBIOLOGY; NONHUMAN; PRAIRIE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESIDENT INTRUDER TEST; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL ISOLATION; VOLE;

ANIMALS; ANXIETY; ARVICOLINAE; AUTONOMIC NERVOUS SYSTEM; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; DOWN-REGULATION; ENVIRONMENT; FEMALE; OXYTOCIN; PARAVENTRICULAR HYPOTHALAMIC NUCLEUS; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84856194549     PISSN: 10253890     EISSN: 16078888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3109/10253890.2011.605486     Document Type: Article

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