Prairie voles with out oxytocin receptors can bond with mates and younger

The very important function of oxytocin — the ‘love hormone’ — for social attachments is being referred to as into query. Greater than forty years of pharmacological and behavioral analysis has pointed to oxytocin receptor signaling as a necessary pathway for the event of social behaviors in prairie voles, people, and different species, however a genetic research reveals that voles can kind enduring attachments with mates and supply parental care with out oxytocin receptor signaling.