indicating that oxytocin signaling plays a role, but it is less vital than previously thought. “This overturns conventional wisdom about lactation and oxytocin that’s existed for a much longer time ...

It finds that voles can actually form enduring attachments with mates and even parent their young without oxytocin receptor signaling. [Related: Prairie Voles Show Empathy Just Like Humans.] ...

More than forty years of pharmacological and behavioral research has pointed to oxytocin receptor signaling as an essential pathway for the development of social behaviors in prairie voles ...

Oxytocin has been the subject of much research that has greatly expanded our understanding of its role in integrating ...

Across a series of experiments, Ibukun Akinrinade and colleagues evaluated the role of the oxytocin signaling system, known to regulate empathic behaviors in mammals, in the social fear contagion ...

The sensory cues—such as smell, movement, or posture—that signal distress have yet to be identified. The research also does not resolve whether separate populations of oxytocin neurons control ...

reuteri, the abilities to promote social behavior and wound healing have been shown to require signaling by the hormone oxytocin, but little was known about how this occurs. "We investigated the ...

11 The interaction between these hormones and their cell surface receptors may directly activate intracellular signaling pathways, influencing functions such as cellular metabolism. After binding, ...

Oxytocin receptor signaling could be one part of that program, but it's not the be-all end-all." The discovery points the researchers down new paths to improving the lives of people struggling to ...