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Off to a new adventure in Chicagoland! I am thrilled to announce that I have accepted an assistant professor position at @NIUlive ! The Ortiz Neuroscience Lab will be starting this fall! I am forever grateful for all of the people that have helped guide me! TEAM PRAIRIE VOLE!
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Who runs the world? VOLES
As the world warms, scientists are eager to know whether the world’s tundra will continue to pull carbon from the atmosphere. A crucial part of that equation: three-ounce voles. @brdemuth reports: theatlantic.com/science/arch…
ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/article…
L. reuteri administration alters the gut-brain-behavior axis in a sex-dependent manner in socially monogamous prairie voles
"Females, but not males, treated with live L. reuteri displayed lower levels of social affiliation"
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New paper by @LindsaySailer in @CommsBio!
DREADD activation of the lateral septum increases general affiliation for strangers but maintains social selectivity for partners in male #PrairieVoles during a life-history transition in reproductive state
nature.com/articles/s42003-0…
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Heeey prairie vole researchers @VoleBase! Our latest, led by @jeannempowell, examines adult aging and shows that social behavior is plastic not only throughout early development, but also well into adulthood.
journals.plos.org/plosone/ar…
Intranasal oxytocin both reduces ethanol intake (~50%) in male prairie voles AND penetrates the blood brain barrier! Two very cool findings from @ryabininae
nature.com/articles/s41386-0…
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Prairie voles would never have done this
We've been thinking that the Omicron variant evolved from an immunocompromised individual with accelerated in vivo mutations. A new report @PNASNews raises the potential that it emanated from mice -> humans
pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pn…
Check out the cover of JCN -that’s a vole brain! “Oxytocin receptors are widely distributed in the prairie vole brain” by Kiyoshi Inoue @lyoun03 and colleagues.
doi.org/10.1002/cne.25382
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Very excited to share the work of Kristen Berendzen and Ruchira Sharma and our collaborators in the @BalesLab and @Shah_Laboratory Strikingly, we find the oxytocin receptor is NOT required for partner preference or parenting behaviors in prairie voles.
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As I put my poster together for the @SBNTweets conference, I made some illustrations of prairie voles at four days old, fifteen days old, and adult voles. Feel free to use them :) I have .svg and .ai for most of them as well!
"Helping behavior in prairie voles: A model of empathy and the importance of oxytocin"
Oxytocin receptor knockout voles: are they jerks?
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
Developmental exposure to intranasal vasopressin impacts adult prairie vole spatial memory
By @BioBookworm and @OphirLab sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
"Effects of a D2 receptor antagonist on repeated pair bond formation in the male prairie vole"
Males voles prefer recent partner over previous. 🚫D2 receptor blocks preference for 2nd partner after loss of 1st but does not preserve preference for 1st.
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
"Social isolation and oxytocin antagonism increase emotion-related behaviors and heart rate in female prairie voles"
by @tangor3d
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
Cool @TheAtlantic article on the science of heartbreak featuring @DrZoePhD !
theatlantic.com/family/archi…
Multi-level effects driving cognitive and behavioral variability among prairie voles: Insights into reproductive decision-making from biological levels of organization
by @OphirLab
karger.com/Article/PDF/52210…
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
"Functional connectivity differences between two culturally distinct prairie vole populations: insights into the prosocial network"
by @ricky_ortiz and colleagues