Breaking bonds in male prairie vole: Long-term effects on emotional and social behavior, physiology, and neurochemistry

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 265, Issue , 2014, Pages 22-31

  Sun, P ^a,b   Smith, A S ^b,c   Lei, K ^b   Liu, Y ^b   Wang, Z ^b  

^a HENAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

Bond loss; Corticotrophin releasing hormone; Oxytocin; Social stress; Tyrosine hydroxylase; Vasopressin

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; OXYTOCIN; TYROSINE 3 MONOOXYGENASE; VASOPRESSIN;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONAL ATTACHMENT; FEMALE; HYPOTHALAMIC PARAVENTRICULAR NUCLEUS; MALE; MATE CHOICE; MAZE TEST; NEUROCHEMISTRY; NONHUMAN; OXYTOCIN BLOOD LEVEL; PRAIRIE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPARATION ANXIETY; SOCIAL BONDING; SUPRAOPTIC NUCLEUS; VASOPRESSIN BLOOD LEVEL; VOLE; WEIGHT GAIN;

BOND LOSS; CORTICOTROPHIN RELEASING HORMONE; OXYTOCIN; SOCIAL STRESS; TYROSINE HYDROXYLASE; VASOPRESSIN;

ADAPTATION, OCULAR; AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; ARGININE VASOPRESSIN; ARVICOLINAE; BODY WEIGHT; BRAIN; CORTICOSTERONE; CORTICOTROPIN-RELEASING HORMONE; MALE; MAZE LEARNING; NEUROCHEMISTRY; OXYTOCIN; PAIR BOND; SOCIAL ISOLATION; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SWIMMING; TIME FACTORS; TYROSINE 3-MONOOXYGENASE; VASOPRESSINS;

EID: 84895768331     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2014.02.016     Document Type: Article

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