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Oxytocin Promotes Accurate Fear Discrimination and Adaptive Defensive Behaviors

The nonapeptide, oxytocin (OT), known for its role in social bonding and attachment formation, has demonstrated anxiolytic properties in animal models and human studies. However, its role in the regulation of fear responses appears more complex, brain site-specific, sex-specific, and dependent on a...

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Autores principales: Olivera-Pasilio, Valentina, Dabrowska, Joanna
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7538630/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33071751
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2020.583878