Constanza Villalba

TL;DR: It is clear that the ER alpha plays a key role in the expression of masculine sexual behavior and in the regulation of androgen receptors in a neuronal cell population involved in the display of motivated behaviors.

TL;DR: This approach describes some landmark findings in the study on the physiological basis of parental behavior, made mostly in rats, and describes how sex and species differences in neural structure contribute to differences in reproductive strategies.

TL;DR: The findings suggest that serotonin influences social behavior in prairie voles, and fluoxetine did not alter nonsocial behaviors.

TL;DR: This work used immunohistochemistry to examine the distribution of VP cells and fibers in the forebrains of adult spotted hyenas and finds the expected densely staining VP immunoreactive (VP‐ir) neurons in the paraventricular and supraoptic nuclei, as well as an unusually extensive distribution of magnocelluar VP‐ir neurons in accessory regions.

TL;DR: Androstenedione may be able to mimic the effects of testosterone on testosterone-responsive neural systems and maintain vasopressin peptide levels in gonadal steroid-responsive vasoppressin cells of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis and the centromedial amygdala.