Mother-pup interactions: Rodents and humans

Frontiers in Endocrinology

Volumn 5, Issue FEB, 2014, Pages

  Lucion, Aldo B ^a   Bortolini, Maria Cátira ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE DO SUL   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Behavior synchrony; Innate behavior; Mother infant attachment; Oxytocin receptor gene; Social behaviors

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESSIN; AVPR1A PROTEIN; AVPR2 PROTEIN; CYTOKINE; DOPAMINE; NORADRENALIN; OPIATE; OXYTOCIN; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR; PEPTIDES AND PROTEINS; SEROTONIN; SOMATOMEDIN B; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASOPRESSIN; VASOPRESSIN V1B RECEPTOR;

ARTICLE; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENOME IMPRINTING; GRB10 GENE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LIFE CYCLE; LOCOMOTION; MEMORY; MOTHER CHILD RELATION; NONHUMAN; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PEG3 GENE; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; STRESS MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84901056106     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16642392     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fendo.2014.00017     Document Type: Article

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