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Corticosterone release is heightened in food or water deprived oxytocin deficient male mice.
Brain research - 5 Oct 2005
Mantella Rose C, Vollmer Regis R, Amico Janet A
Abstract excerpt
Recent studies in female mice that cannot synthesize oxytocin (OT) suggest that central OT neural pathways attenuate the response of the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis to certain stressors. OT deficient (OT-/-) female mice had higher plasma corticosterone concentrations than wild type (OT+/+) female mice following exposure to platform shaker (Mantella et al., 2004). The present study examined the...
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