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Oxytocin enhances observational fear in mice

Empathy is fundamental to human relations, but its neural substrates remain largely unknown. Here we characterize the involvement of oxytocin in the capacity of mice to display emotional state-matching, an empathy-like behavior. When exposed to a familiar conspecific demonstrator in distress, an obs...

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Autores principales: Pisansky, Marc T., Hanson, Leah R., Gottesman, Irving I., Gewirtz, Jonathan C.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group UK 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5727393/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29235461
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02279-5