Sentences with phrase «on prairie voles»
Much of the oxytocin research to date has been done on prairie voles, monogamous rodents that will release oxytocin only when touching a family member, Pollak says.
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A new theory that has sprung from research on prairie voles says that at least some of those disparities evolved not to create differences in behaviour or ability, but to prevent them.
Research on prairie voles suggests that it's possible to predict which voles will exhibit pair - bonding behavior just by looking for those expressing the gene for AVPR1a, a specific vasopressin receptor.
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On Thursday, the museum — which bills itself as the oldest in Chicago — will turn out some of its rarer animal specimens, including a small rodent called a southern rock vole and two specimens of prairie chicken, a species whose population has rapidly declined due to habitat destruction.
Load up on adrenaline, or cool down with oxytocin About 20 years ago, neuroendocrinologist Sue Carter began examining the brains of prairie voles to understand why the small rodent indigenous to the midwestern plains of the United States is one of the natural world's great romantics.
qBrain is built on an automated technology platform that will be used to perform similar analyses of other mammalian brains, from prairie voles to marmoset monkeys and humans.
The research focused on two related species of vole: prairie voles, which are about as close as mammals get to being monogamous, and meadow voles, which express little interest in each other after copulation.
A study of the effect of alcohol on long - term relationships finds that when a male prairie vole has access to alcohol, but his female partner doesn't, the relationship suffers — similar to what has been observed in human couples.
Burkett's presentation, on oxytocin - dependent comforting behavior in prairie voles, outlined an extension of his graduate work with Larry Young at Yerkes National Primate Research Center, which was published in Science in January 2016 and impressed oxytocin skeptic Ed Yong.
On the contrary, the knockdown of V1aR in the ventral pallidum of male prairie voles causes a deficit in partner preference formation (Barrett et al., 2013).