Sentences with phrase «prairie voles mate»

Their lives may be short — they're an easy snack for hawks and snakes — but once two prairie voles mate, they are bonded until the end.

So when prairie voles mate, their bodies produce vasopressin, which causes their brains to reward the vole couple with a flood of pleasurable emotions, sealing the social bond.

Not exact matches

CHICAGO, ILLINOIS — When prairie voles choose a mate, there's no turning back — the «love chemical» oxytocin increases in their brains and they devote themselves to only each other.

Strong interpersonal relationships have been shown to ward off drug addiction, and new clues as to why come from prairie voles — rodents that form long - term, monogamous bonds with their mates.

PAIR - BOND Just 24 hours in each other's company without mating can be enough to bond a pair of prairie voles for life.

Robert Liu at Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, and his colleagues chose to study pair - bonding in prairie voles because this species is one of the few to mate for life.

For example, Young's research shows normally monogamous prairie voles do not develop pair bonds with their mates if their mu - opioid system is blocked; other studies have found that mice genetically engineered to have no mu - opioid receptors do not prefer their mothers to other mice the way normal baby mice do.

A paper Young published this month, in collaboration with researchers at the University of Tsukuba in Japan, found prairie voles that have bonded with a mate not only experience more anxiety when separated from their partners — they also experience more physical pain during the separation, by various measures including response to a painful injection and pain from heat.

For example, the overexpression of the V1aR in the ventral pallidum results in a strong partner preference formation in male prairie voles even in the absence of mating (Pitkow et al., 2001).