ArticleAddiction biology2011
Prairie voles as a novel model of socially facilitated excessive drinking.
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- Intranasal vasopressin, but not oxytocin, decreases ethanol intake in socially housed mice.Psychopharmacology · 2026Article
- Sex-Specific Impacts of Early Life Sleep Disruption: Ethanol Seeking, Social Interaction, and Anxiety Are Differentially Altered in Adolescent Prairie Voles.Developmental psychobiology · 2024Article
- Effects of social housing on alcohol intake in mice depend on the non-social environment.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2024Article
- Male-selective effects of oxytocin agonism on alcohol intake: behavioral assessment in socially housed prairie voles and involvement of RAGE.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2023Article
- Alcohol and oxytocin: Scrutinizing the relationship.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2021Review
- A Neuroscientist's Guide to the Vole.Current protocols · 2021Article
- Assessing effects of oxytocin on alcohol consumption in socially housed prairie voles using radio frequency tracking.Addiction biology · 2021Article
- Social Interaction With Relapsed Partner Facilitates Cocaine Relapse in Rats.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2021Article
- Social Housing Leads to Increased Ethanol Intake in Male Mice Housed in Environmentally Enriched Cages.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2021Article
- Early life sleep disruption is a risk factor for increased ethanol drinking after acute footshock stress in prairie voles.Behavioral neuroscience · 2020Article
- Effects of pharmacological inhibition of the centrally-projecting Edinger-Westphal nucleus on ethanol-induced conditioned place preference and body temperature.Alcohol (Fayetteville, N.Y.) · 2020Article
- Biparental care in C57BL/6J mice: effects on adolescent behavior and alcohol consumption.Psychopharmacology · 2020Article
- Differential sensitivity of alcohol drinking and partner preference to a CRFR1 antagonist in prairie voles and mice.Hormones and behavior · 2020Article
- Involvement of Centrally Projecting Edinger-Westphal Nucleus Neuropeptides in Actions of Addictive Drugs.Brain sciences · 2020Review
- From Pleasure to Pain, and Back Again: The Intricate Relationship Between Alcohol and Nociception.Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire) · 2019Review
- Effects of Alcohol Consumption on Pair Bond Maintenance and Potential Neural Substrates in Female Prairie Voles.Alcohol and alcoholism (Oxford, Oxfordshire) · 2019Article
- Frank Beach award winner: Neuroendocrinology of group living.Hormones and behavior · 2019Review
- The Prairie Vole Model of Pair-Bonding and Its Sensitivity to Addictive Substances.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Review
- Intranasal oxytocin reduces weight gain in diet-induced obese prairie voles.Physiology & behavior · 2018Article
- Social context has differential effects on acquisition of nicotine self-administration in male and female rats.Psychopharmacology · 2017Article
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Abstract
Social relationships strongly affect alcohol drinking in humans. Traditional laboratory rodents do not exhibit social affiliations with specific peers, and cannot adequately model how such relationships impact drinking. The prairie vole is a socially monogamous rodent used to study social bonds. The present study tested the prairie vole as a potential model for the effects of social affiliations on alcohol drinking. Same-sex adult sibling prairie voles were paired for five days, and then either separated into individual cages, or housed in pairs. Starting at the time of separation, the voles received unlimited access to alcohol in a two-bottle choice test versus water. Pair-housed siblings exhibited higher preference for alcohol, but not saccharin, than singly housed voles. There was a significant correlation between the amount of alcohol consumed by each member of a pair when they were housed together (r = 0.79), but not when housed apart (r = 0.20). Following automated analysis of circadian patterns of fluid consumption indicating peak fluid intake before and after the dark phase, a limited access two-hour two-bottle choice procedure was established. Drinking in this procedure resulted in physiologically relevant blood ethanol concentrations and increased Fos immunoreactivity in perioculomotor urocortin containing neurons (but not in nucleus accumbens or central nucleus of the amygdala). The high ethanol preference and sensitivity to social manipulation indicate that prairie voles can serve to model social influences on excessive drinking.
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