Oxytocin and carbetocin ameliorating effects on restraint stress-induced short- and long-term behavioral changes in rats

Abstract

Repeated restraint stress exposure produces acute and persistent effects on Wistar rat behavior in the open field test; carbetocin, an oxytocin agonist, injected after stress intraperitoneally abolished the developed changes in the exploratory activity.

Keywords

• carbetocin
• oxytocin
• open field
• Wistar rats
• behavior
• restraint
• stress