Oxytocin receptor induces mammary tumorigenesis through prolactin/p-STAT5 pathway
Cell Death and Disease, 2021 Oxytocin receptor (OXTR) is involved in social behaviors, thermoregulation, and milk ejection, yet little is known about its role in breast cancer. To investigate the role of OXTR in mammary gland development and tumorigenesis, a transgenic mouse model ...
Dan Li +10 more
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Lateralization (handedness) in Magellanic penguins [PDF]
PeerJ, 2019 Lateralization, or asymmetry in form and/or function, is found in many animal species. Brain lateralization is considered adaptive for an individual, and often results in “handedness,” “footedness,” or a side preference, manifest in behavior and ...
Thaís Stor +3 more
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The Human Penguin Project: Climate, Social Integration, and Core Body Temperature
Collabra: Psychology, 2018 Social thermoregulation theory posits that modern human relationships are pleisiomorphically organized around body temperature regulation. In two studies (N = 1755) designed to test the principles from this theory, we used supervised machine learning to ...
Hans IJzerman +30 more
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Aerobic power, huddling and the efficiency of torpor in the South American marsupial, Dromiciops gliroides. [PDF]
, 2012 During periods of cold, small endotherms depend on a continuous supply of food and energy to maintain euthermic body temperature (T(b)), which can be challenging if food is limited. In these conditions, energy-saving strategies are critical to reduce the
Chappell, Mark A +5 more
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Homosexual Fellatio: Erect Penis Licking between Male Bonin Flying Foxes Pteropus pselaphon. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2016 A recent focus of interest has been on the functional significance of genital licking (fellatio and cunnilingus) in relation to sexual selection in Pteropodid bats.
Norimasa Sugita
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Microbiome, 2018 Background Huddling is highly evolved as a cooperative behavioral strategy for social mammals to maximize their fitness in harsh environments. Huddling behavior can change psychological and physiological responses.
Xue-Ying Zhang +7 more
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Brain serotonin and dopamine modulators, perceptual responses and endurance performance during exercise in the heat following creatine supplementation [PDF]
, 2008 Background:The present experiment examined the responses of peripheral modulators and indices of brain serotonin (5-HT) and dopamine (DA) function and their association with perception of effort during prolonged exercise in the heat after creatine (Cr ...
Hadjicharalambous, M. +2 more
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Conflict between background matching and social signalling in a colour-changing freshwater fish [PDF]
, 2016 The ability to change coloration allows animals to modify their patterning to suit a specific function. Many freshwater fishes, for example, can appear cryptic by altering the dispersion of melanin pigment in the skin to match the visual background ...
Kelley, Jennifer L. +2 more
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Revista Peruana de Biología, 2012 The thermal ecology of Microlophus occipitalis Peters 1871 in the plain dry forests of Tumbes (northewestern Peru) was studied. Mean body temperature was 36.1 ± 1.8 ºC, similar to body temperatures exposed by Microlophus peruvianus in northern Peru ...
Juan C. Jordán A., José Pérez Z.
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Social Thermoregulation in Redfronted Lemurs (Eulemur fulvus rufus)
Folia Primatologica, 2002 Pronounced seasonality, with temperatures dropping as low as 5°C during the dry season, has led to the hypothesis that Malagasy lemurs face cold stress and respond to this by inactivity and social thermoregulation, i.e. resting in tight body contact with conspecifics.
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