Oxytocin receptors modulate a social salience neural network in male prairie voles

Hormones and Behavior

Volumn 87, Issue , 2017, Pages 16-24

  Johnson, Zachary V ^a   Walum, Hasse ^a   Xiao, Yao ^a   Riefkohl, Paula C ^a   Young, Larry J ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Fos; Functional connectivity; Functional coupling; Immediate early gene; Nucleus accumbens; Pair bonding network; Sexual behavior; Social behavior; Social behavior network; Social decision making network; Striatum

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN RECEPTOR; PROTEIN FOS; OXYTOCIN;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; IMMEDIATE EARLY GENE; MALE; MATING; MICROTUS OCHROGASTER; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; SALIENCE NETWORK; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIAL SALIENCE NETWORK; ANIMAL; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARVICOLINAE; BRAIN; DRUG EFFECTS; FEMALE; METABOLISM; NERVE CELL NETWORK; PAIR BONDING; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR;

ANIMALS; ARVICOLINAE; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; BRAIN; FEMALE; MALE; NERVE NET; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; OXYTOCIN; PAIR BOND; RECEPTORS, OXYTOCIN; REPRODUCTION; SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

EID: 84994267563     PISSN: 0018506X     EISSN: 10956867     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2016.10.009     Document Type: Article

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