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Peptide effects on social behavior: effects of vasotocin and isotocin on social approach behavior in male goldfish (Carassius auratus).
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Behavioral neuroscience [Behav Neurosci] 2004 Jun; Vol. 118 (3), pp. 620-6. - Publication Year :
- 2004
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Abstract
- The authors measured the effects of centrally infused peptides on social approach behaviors in goldfish (Carassius auratus), a social teleost. Vasotocin (VT) inhibited approach responses toward the visual stimuli of conspecifics in the absence of aggressive or sexual olfactory contextual cues in males, and a V1 receptor antagonist stimulated such responses, at least in males that were not highly social in baseline conditions, as did isotocin (IT). In the absence of social stimuli, VT did not affect activity, therefore indicating that the inhibition was not the result of nonspecific effects on arousal or motor functioning. These experiments indicate that VT and IT induce opposite effects on social approach responses in male goldfish and that endogenous VT, at least, is associated with levels of sociality.<br /> (((c) 2004 APA, all rights reserved))
- Subjects :
- Animals
Arginine Vasopressin pharmacology
Dose-Response Relationship, Drug
Goldfish
Locomotion drug effects
Male
Photic Stimulation methods
Sex Attractants pharmacology
Sexual Behavior, Animal
Time Factors
Vasotocin antagonists & inhibitors
Arginine Vasopressin analogs & derivatives
Behavior, Animal drug effects
Oxytocin analogs & derivatives
Oxytocin pharmacology
Social Behavior
Vasotocin pharmacology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0735-7044
- Volume :
- 118
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Behavioral neuroscience
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 15174940
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1037/0735-7044.118.3.620