Sex differences in neural activation following different routes of oxytocin administration in awake adult rats

Psychoneuroendocrinology

Volumn 81, Issue , 2017, Pages 52-62

  Dumais, Kelly M ^a   Kulkarni, Praveen P ^b   Ferris, Craig F ^b   Veenema, Alexa H ^a  

^a BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Amygdala; fMRI; Nucleus accumbens; Oxytocin; Rat; Sex differences

Indexed keywords

OXYTOCIN;

ADULT; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BOLD SIGNAL; BRAIN FUNCTION; BRAIN REGION; BRAIN SIZE; CENTRAL NUCLEUS (AMYGDALA); CONTROLLED STUDY; DRUG MECHANISM; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; HORMONE ACTION; INSULA; LATERAL AMYGDALA; MALE; NERVOUS SYSTEM PARAMETERS; NEURAL ACTIVATION; NEUROMODULATION; NONHUMAN; NUCLEUS ACCUMBENS; RAT; SEX DIFFERENCE; WAKEFULNESS; ANIMAL; DRUG EFFECTS; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; INTRACEREBROVENTRICULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; INTRAPERITONEAL DRUG ADMINISTRATION; NERVE CELL; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PHYSIOLOGY; SEXUAL CHARACTERISTICS;

ANIMALS; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL NEUROIMAGING; INFUSIONS, INTRAVENTRICULAR; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; NEURONS; OXYTOCIN; RATS; SEX CHARACTERISTICS; WAKEFULNESS;

EID: 85017465170     PISSN: 03064530     EISSN: 18733360     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2017.04.003     Document Type: Article

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