Distribution of Oxytocin- and Vasopressin-Immunoreactive Neurons in the Brain of the Eusocial Mole Rat (Fukomys anselli)

Anatomical Record

Volumn 295, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 474-480

  Valesky, Eva Maria ^a   Burda, Hynek ^b,c   Kaufmann, Roland ^a   Oelschläger, Helmut H A ^a  

^a GOETHE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^c CZECH UNIVERSITY OF LIFE SCIENCES PRAGUE   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Caudal magnocellular nucleus; Mole rat; Monogamy; Oxytocin; Social recognition

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN; VASOPRESSIN;

AFRICA; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BRAIN NERVE CELL; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUKOMYS ANSELLI; HORMONE ACTION; IMMUNOREACTIVITY; LABELING INDEX; MALE; MOLE RAT; MONOGAMY; NONHUMAN; PARAVENTRICULAR THALAMIC NUCLEUS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGENY; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; SUPRAOPTIC NUCLEUS;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; BRAIN MAPPING; FEMALE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; MALE; MOLE RATS; NEURONS; OXYTOCIN; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; VASOPRESSINS;

HETEROCEPHALUS GLABER; MAMMALIA; RATTUS; RATTUS NORVEGICUS; RODENTIA;

EID: 84857039342     PISSN: 19328486     EISSN: 19328494     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/ar.22414     Document Type: Article

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