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Samantha Bowden

Michigan State University

Agriculture Hall

East Lansing, MI 48824-1122

United States

SCHOLARLY PAPERS

2

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Scholarly Papers (2)

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To Play or Not to Play? Effects of Social Isolation Length and Stimulus Rat Familiarity on Social Play Engagement in Three Laboratory Rat Strains

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 07 Apr 2025
Michigan State University, Michigan State University, University of Lethbridge, Michigan State University, Michigan State University and Michigan State University
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Play fighting, juvenile, Long-Evans, Sprague-Dawley, Wistar, Sex

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Sex-specific regulation of social play in juvenile rats by oxytocin neurons in the hypothalamus and oxytocin signaling in the nucleus accumbens

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 24 Dec 2025
Michigan State University, Michigan State University, Michigan State University, Heidelberg University - Department of Neuropeptide Research in Psychiatry, Michigan State University and Michigan State University
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Oxytocin, social play, social behavior, sex differences, paraventricular nucleus, nucleus accumbens