Early nurture epigenetically tunes the oxytocin receptor

Mammalian sociality is regulated in part by the neuropeptide oxytocin. In prairie voles, subtle variation in early life experience changes oxytocin receptor-mediated social behaviors. We report that low levels of early care in voles leads to de novo DNA methylation at specific regulatory sites in th...

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Published in:Psychoneuroendocrinology
Main Authors: Perkeybile, Allison M., Carter, C. Sue, Wroblewski, Kelly L., Puglia, Meghan H., Kenkel, William M., Lillard, Travis S., Karaoli, Themistoclis, Gregory, Simon G., Mohammadi, Niaz, Epstein, Larissa, Bales, Karen L., Connelly, Jessica J.
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Language:Inglês
Published: 2018
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Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6231974/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30227351
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.psyneuen.2018.08.037
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