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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Aug 15.
Published in final edited form as: Biol Psychiatry. 2013 Sep 28;76(4):281–288. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2013.09.017

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Neurochemical changes occurred as a result of immobilization and social support in the PVN. (A) Immobilized females had significantly lower optical density (OD) of oxytocin receptor (OTR) in the PVN. (B) V1aR expression was also lower in the PVN following immobilization. Social controls (SC) are non-immobilized females removed from their social partner for 30 min prior to sacrifice and tissue collection. (C) Recovering from immobilization with a social partner induced a reduction in the oxytocin (OT) content in the PVN. (D,E) No changes were observed in vasopressin (AVP) or CRH content. Bars labeled with different letters differ significantly by post hoc SNK test in which a significant main effect was detected in the ANOVA (p < 0.05). Data are expressed as mean ± SEM.