Young's team has also shown that blocking corticotropin - releasing factor (CRF), a hormone involved in the stress response, stops the depressive behaviour that prairie
voles exhibit when their partner dies.
Not exact matches
Nature Museum Turning 160, Celebrates with Rock
Voles and Chickens In honor of its 160th anniversary next year, the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum will host a week of festivities, including a look at some of its rarely seen specimens in addition to a special pop - up
exhibit focused on the museum's history.
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.
In a study published last fall, researchers showed that male prairie
voles that had been separated from their female partners for four days — a much shorter amount of separation time than researchers had previously found to affect the
voles» physiology —
exhibited depressionlike behavior and had increased levels of corticosterone, the rodent equivalent of the human stress hormone cortisol.