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- Title
Cellular neuroscience: Social studies.
- Authors
Welberg, Leonie
- Abstract
The article investigates a plausible link between CD38 and oxytocin using mice models. Female mice in which Cd38 was knocked out displayed disrupted maternal behavior and their male counterparts showed reduced social memory, resembling the phenotype of oxytocin- and oxytocin receptor-knockout mice. According to the researchers, their findings shed light on the function of CD38 in the brain and, potentially, in human diseases associated with abnormal social behavior such as autism.
- Subjects
CD antigens; OXYTOCIN; GLYCOPROTEINS; INTERPERSONAL relations; SOCIAL disabilities; PATHOLOGICAL psychology
- Publication
Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 2007, Vol 8, Issue 4, p248
- ISSN
1471-003X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/nrn2120