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Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2023 IntroductionVasopressin (AVP) and oxytocin (OXT) are neuropeptides produced by magnocellular neurons (MCNs) of the hypothalamus and secreted through neurohypophysis to defend mammals against dehydration.
Viviane Felintro +7 more
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Frontiers in Veterinary Science, 2021 Enrichment is widely used as a tool for studying how changes in environment affect animal behavior. Here, we report an experimental study investigating if behaviors shaped by stimuli from environmental enrichment depending on the stage animals are ...
Ingeborg Bjerkvik Alnes +3 more
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Disrupted Social Hierarchy in Prenatally Valproate-Exposed Autistic-Like Rats
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2020 Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is characterized by impaired socio-communicational function, repetitive and restricted behaviors. Valproic acid (VPA) was reported to increase the prevalence of ASD in humans as a consequence of its use during pregnancy ...
Péter Pelsőczi +8 more
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Effects Of Ferulic Acid On Exploratory Behavior And Locomotor Activity In Rats [PDF]
Journal of Biomedical & Clinical Research, 2014 Ferulic acid (FA), called also hydroxycinnamic acid, is a polyphenol compound found in many foods such as coffee, apples, rice, oats and wheat. It acts as an antioxidant but its other activities in vivo have not been well studied as a whole.
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Insects, 2022 Urbanization is creating changes in environmental and habitat conditions, as well as creating disturbance and threats to urban-associated species. Some traits, such as high exploratory and risk-taking behavior, are beneficial to allow colonization of ...
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Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2022 Atrazine and Diuron are widely used herbicides. The use of pesticides contaminates the aquatic environment, threatening biodiversity and non-target organisms such as fish.
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Analyzing the House Fly's Exploratory Behavior with Autoregression Methods [PDF]
, 2008 This paper presents a detailed characterization of the trajectory of a single housefly with free range of a square cage. The trajectory of the fly was recorded and transformed into a time series, which was fully analyzed using an autoregressive model ...
Akaike H. +14 more
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Altering Perceived Context: Transportation Cues Influence Novelty-Induced Context Exploration
Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2021 Context is the milieu in which everything occurs. Many research studies consider context, or even explicitly manipulate it; yet it remains challenging to characterize.
Victoria Nemchek +6 more
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Effectiveness of a web-based intervention aimed at healthy dietary and physical activity behavior: a randomized controlled trial about users and usage [PDF]
, 2011 Background:\ud Recent studies have shown the potential of Web-based interventions for changing dietary and physical activity (PA) behavior. However, the pathways of these changes are not clear. In addition, nonusage poses a threat to these interventions.
Gemert-Pijnen, Julia E.W.C. van +4 more
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Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 Earlier evidence suggests that besides humans, some species of mammals and birds demonstrate visual self-recognition, assessed by the controversial “mark” test. Whereas, there are high levels of inter-individual differences amongst a single species, some
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