Moderate Stress-Induced Social Bonding and Oxytocin Signaling are Disrupted by Predator Odor in Male Rats

Neuropsychopharmacology

Volumn 41, Issue 8, 2016, Pages 2160-2170

  Muroy, Sandra E ^a   Long, Kimberly L P ^a   Kaufer, Daniela ^a,b   Kirby, Elizabeth D ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED RESEARCH   (Canada)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGIPRESSIN; CORTICOSTERONE; OXYTOCIN; VASOPRESSIN V1A RECEPTOR; FRAGRANCE;

ACUTE STRESS; ADULT; AGGRESSION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTERONE BLOOD LEVEL; DOMINANCE BEHAVIOR; ELEVATED PLUS MAZE TEST; IMMOBILIZATION STRESS; MALE; NONHUMAN; ODOR; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PREDATOR; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RAT; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL BONDING; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL STATUS; SOCIAL STRESS; SOCIAL SUPPORT; STRESS; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; EXERCISE; HYPOTHALAMUS; MENTAL STRESS; METABOLISM; OBJECT RELATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; SPRAGUE DAWLEY RAT;

AGGRESSION; ANIMALS; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; HYPOTHALAMUS; MALE; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; ODORANTS; OXYTOCIN; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; RESTRAINT, PHYSICAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL DOMINANCE; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 84961223512     PISSN: 0893133X     EISSN: 1740634X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/npp.2016.16     Document Type: Article

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