Centrally-administered oxytocin promotes preference for familiar objects at a short delay in ovariectomized female rats

Behavioural Brain Research

Volumn 274, Issue , 2014, Pages 164-167

  Madularu, Dan ^a   Athanassiou, Maria ^a   Yee, Jason R ^b   Mumby, Dave G ^a  

^a Dept of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (Canada)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Intracerebroventricular; Neuropeptide; Novel object preference

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN; OXYTOCIC AGENT; SODIUM CHLORIDE;

ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; NEUROTRANSMISSION; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; REWARD; SOCIAL ATTITUDE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; LONG EVANS RAT; MALE; OVARIECTOMY; PAIR BONDING; RECOGNITION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT; TIME; ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; LEARNING AND MEMORY TEST; MATE CHOICE; NEUROMODULATION; NOVEL OBJECT RECOGNITION TEST; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; OBJECT PREFERENCE; OBJECT RELATION;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; MALE; OVARIECTOMY; OXYTOCICS; OXYTOCIN; PAIR BOND; RATS; RATS, LONG-EVANS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84906700650     PISSN: 01664328     EISSN: 18727549     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbr.2014.08.015     Document Type: Article

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