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J A Stivers¹, M T Kaltwasser, P S Hill

¹Clinical Neuroscience Branch, National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, MD 20892.

|January 1, 1988

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Oxytocin (OXY) injected into the ventral tegmental area (VTA) significantly increases grooming behaviors in rats. These effects are not influenced by sex hormones and involve dopamine release at postsynaptic sites.

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