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Monday, March 15, 2010

Nest making, oxytocin, and social bonding

I encountered Nest making and oxytocin comparably promote wound healing in isolation reared rats [1] while reading about how stress affect...

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The Dog Zombie: Marlborough, MA, United States; Jessica Perry Hekman, DVM, PhD is fascinated by dog brains. She is a postdoctoral associate at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, where she studies the genetics of dog behavior. Her interests include the stress response in mammals, canine behavior, canine domestication, shelter medicine, animal welfare, and open access publishing. You may learn more about Jessica at www.dogzombie.com, or email her at jph at dogzombie dot com. All opinions expressed here are her own.

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