The Neuropeptide Oxytocin Facilitates Pro-Social Behavior and Prevents Social Avoidance in Rats and Mice
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...The elevated plus-maze was used to assess the effects of the OTR-A or of PTZ on non-social anxiety-related behavior in both rats and mice (Pellow et al, 1985)....
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...…eye region (Gamer et al, 2010; Guastella et al, 2008), and improved recognition of emotional facial expressions (Domes et al, 2007; Savaskan et al, 2008) to complex social behaviors like trust, social-risk taking, and empathy (Baumgartner et al, 2008; Hurlemann et al, 2010; Kosfeld et al, 2005)....
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...The social preference paradigm in rats was based on the social approach-avoidance test previously described in mice (Berton et al, 2006)....
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...In accordance with previous studies demonstrating social avoidance after repeated or chronic exposure to social defeat (Berton et al, 2006; Haller and Bakos, 2002; Meerlo et al, 1996; Vidal et al, 2007), we show here that a single social defeat exposure, prior to the social preference test, induces…...
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...…processing, has been implicated as one of the key regions mediating neuronal actions of OT on social behaviors in humans (Baumgartner et al, 2008; Gamer et al, 2010; Hurlemann et al, 2010; Kirsch et al, 2005) as well as in rodents (Choleris et al, 2007; Ferguson et al, 2001; Lee et al, 2007)....
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...Similarly, human imaging studies suggest an involvement of amygdala subnuclei in oxytocinergic processing of social interactions and fear response (Gamer et al, 2010; Hurlemann et al, 2010; Kirsch et al, 2005; Labuschagne et al, 2010)....
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...…increased gazing toward the eye region (Gamer et al, 2010; Guastella et al, 2008), and improved recognition of emotional facial expressions (Domes et al, 2007; Savaskan et al, 2008) to complex social behaviors like trust, social-risk taking, and empathy (Baumgartner et al, 2008; Hurlemann…...
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