The oxytocin receptor: from intracellular signaling to behavior

B Jurek, ID Neumann - Physiological reviews, 2018 - journals.physiology.org
The many facets of the oxytocin (OXT) system of the brain and periphery elicited nearly
25,000 publications since 1930 (see, as listed in PubMed), which revealed central roles for …

Oxytocin pathway genes: evolutionary ancient system impacting on human affiliation, sociality, and psychopathology

R Feldman, M Monakhov, M Pratt, RP Ebstein - Biological psychiatry, 2016 - Elsevier
Oxytocin (OT), a nonapeptide signaling molecule originating from an ancestral peptide,
appears in different variants across all vertebrate and several invertebrate species …

Assembling the puzzle: pathways of oxytocin signaling in the brain

V Grinevich, HS Knobloch-Bollmann, M Eliava… - Biological …, 2016 - Elsevier
Oxytocin (OT) is a neuropeptide, which can be seen to be one of the molecules of the
decade due to its profound prosocial effects in nonvertebrate and vertebrate species …

Comparative perspectives on oxytocin and vasopressin receptor research in rodents and primates: translational implications

SM Freeman, LJ Young - Journal of neuroendocrinology, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
In the last several decades, sophisticated experimental techniques have been used to
determine the neurobiology of the oxytocin and vasopressin systems in rodents. Using a …

Adaptations for social cognition in the primate brain

ML Platt, RM Seyfarth… - … Transactions of the …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Studies of the factors affecting reproductive success in group-living monkeys have
traditionally focused on competitive traits, like the acquisition of high dominance rank …

Social monogamy in nonhuman primates: phylogeny, phenotype, and physiology

JA French, J Cavanaugh, AC Mustoe… - The Journal of Sex …, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Monogamy as a social system has been both a scientific puzzle and a sociocultural issue for
decades. In this review, we examine social monogamy from a comparative perspective with …

Oxytocin modulates behavioral and physiological responses to a stressor in marmoset monkeys

J Cavanaugh, SB Carp, CM Rock, JA French - Psychoneuroendocrinology, 2016 - Elsevier
Social isolation is a major source of stress and can lead to activation of the hypothalamic-
pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis. The presence of a close social partner can reduce the …

Do marmosets care to share? Oxytocin treatment reduces prosocial behavior toward strangers

AC Mustoe, J Cavanaugh, AM Harnisch… - Hormones and …, 2015 - Elsevier
Cooperatively-breeding and socially-monogamous primates, like marmosets and humans,
exhibit high levels of social tolerance and prosociality toward others. Oxytocin (OXT) …

Neural regulation of paternal behavior in mammals: sensory, neuroendocrine, and experiential influences on the paternal brain

ND Horrell, PW Hickmott, W Saltzman - Neuroendocrine regulation of …, 2019 - Springer
Across the animal kingdom, parents in many species devote extraordinary effort toward
caring for offspring, often risking their lives and exhausting limited resources. Understanding …

Oxytocin and vasopressin enhance responsiveness to infant stimuli in adult marmosets

JH Taylor, JA French - Hormones and Behavior, 2015 - Elsevier
The neuropeptides oxytocin (OT) and arginine-vasopressin (AVP) have been implicated in
modulating sex-specific responses to offspring in a variety of uniparental and biparental …