The oxytocin system promotes resilience to the effects of neonatal isolation on adult social attachment in female prairie voles

Translational Psychiatry

Volumn 5, Issue 7, 2015, Pages

  Barrett, C E ^a,b   Arambula, S E ^a   Young, L J ^a,b  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MELANOTAN II; OXYTOCIN; OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR; ALPHA INTERMEDIN; CYCLOPEPTIDE; MELANOCORTIN RECEPTOR; MELANOTAN-II; VASOPRESSIN DERIVATIVE;

ADULT; ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; AUTORADIOGRAPHY; BODY WEIGHT; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXPERIENCE; FEMALE; GENETIC VARIATION; GROOMING; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; LICKING; MICROTUS OCHROGASTER; NERVE CELL; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; REUNION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL ISOLATION; TACTILE STIMULATION; ANALOGS AND DERIVATIVES; ANIMAL; ANTAGONISTS AND INHIBITORS; ARVICOLINAE; COPING BEHAVIOR; GENE EXPRESSION; OBJECT RELATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY;

ALPHA-MSH; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, NEWBORN; ARVICOLINAE; FEMALE; GENE EXPRESSION; OBJECT ATTACHMENT; OXYTOCIN; PEPTIDES, CYCLIC; RECEPTORS, MELANOCORTIN; RECEPTORS, OXYTOCIN; RESILIENCE, PSYCHOLOGICAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ISOLATION; VASOPRESSINS;

EID: 84990966967     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21583188     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/tp.2015.73     Document Type: Article

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