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Social touch promotes interfemale communication via activation of parvocellular oxytocin neurons

Tang, Yan ; Benusiglio, Diego ; Lefevre, Arthur ; Hilfiger, Louis ; Althammer, Ferdinand ; Bludau, Anna ; Hagiwara, Daisuke ; Baudon, Angel ; Darbon, Pascal ; Schimmer, Jonas ; Kirchner, Matthew K. ; Roy, Ranjan K. ; Wang, Shiyi ; Eliava, Marina ; Wagner, Shlomo ; Oberhuber, Martina ; Conzelmann, Karl K. ; Schwarz, Martin ; Stern, Javier E. ; Leng, Gareth ; Neumann, Inga D. ; Charlet, Alexandre ; Grinevich, Valery



Abstract

Oxytocin (OT) is a great facilitator of social life but, although its effects on socially relevant brain regions have been extensively studied, OT neuron activity during actual social interactions remains unexplored. Most OT neurons are magnocellular neurons, which simultaneously project to the pituitary and forebrain regions involved in social behaviors. In the present study, we show that a much ...

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