Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10306749 | Psychoneuroendocrinology | 2013 | 12 Pages |
Abstract
These results show that in the rat, the oxytocinergic system differentially regulated fear and extinction in region and temporal-dependent manners and further join data to show that contrary to the prevailing belief that oxytocin is solely involved in reducing fear, oxytocin can also act as an enhancer of fear responses.
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Authors
Nisrine Lahoud, Mouna Maroun,