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ArticleInternational journal of play2020

Involvement of orexin/hypocretin in the expression of social play behaviour in juvenile rats.

Christina J Reppucci, Cassandra K Gergely, Remco Bredewold, Alexa H Veenema

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Article in International journal of play, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
0.8field-weighted citation impact, top 31% of its field
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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 13 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Vasopressin regulates social play behavior in sex-specific ways through glutamate modulation in the lateral septum.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2025
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  4. Hypocretin in the nucleus accumbens shell modulates social approach in female but not male California mice.Neuropsychopharmacology : official publication of the American College of Neuropsychopharmacology · 2024
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  5. Orexins/Hypocretins: Gatekeepers of Social Interaction and Motivation.International journal of molecular sciences · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Christina J ReppucciDepartment of Psychology; Neuroscience Program, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7252-9996
Cassandra K GergelyDepartment of Psychology, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, MA, USA University.
Remco BredewoldDepartment of Psychology; Neuroscience Program, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5715-5837
Alexa H VeenemaDepartment of Psychology; Neuroscience Program, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3404-1957
Boston College · US

Funding

Sex-specific regulation of social playR01MH102456 · NIMH · MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY · PI VEENEMA, ALEXANDRA H. · 2014 to 2018
$1.7M
NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH102456
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Social play is a highly rewarding and motivated behaviour displayed by juveniles of many mammalian species. We hypothesized that the orexin/hypocretin (ORX) system is involved in the expression of juvenile social play behaviour because this system is interconnected with brain regions that comprise the social behaviour and mesocorticolimbic reward networks. We found that exposure to social play increased recruitment of ORX-A neurons in juvenile rats. Furthermore, central administration of ORX-A decreased social play duration, while central blockade of ORX-1 receptors differentially altered social play duration in juvenile rats with low versus high baseline levels of social play (increasing social play in low baseline social play individuals and decreasing social play in high baseline social play individuals). Together, our results provided the first evidence of a role for the ORX system in the modulation of juvenile social play behaviour.

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hypocretinmotivationorexinratrewardsocial play

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PMID33042634
PMCPMC7540609
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