Can You Feel the Love Tonight: A Dipeptidergic Circuit for Pleasant Touch  

作　　者：Jing-Jing Yan Wen Zhang Xiao-Hong Xu 

机构地区：[1]Institute of Neuroscience,State Key Laboratory of Neuroscience,CAS Center for Excellence in Brain Science and Intelligence Technology,Chinese Academy of Sciences,Shanghai,200031,China

出　　处：《Neuroscience Bulletin》2022年第8期966-968,共3页神经科学通报（英文版）

摘　　要：Soft and gentle touches such as the maternal caressing of infants foster a sense of well-being,promote social bonding,and have long-lasting impacts on the brain and behaviors.Dr.Xiang Yu's group recently identified a dipeptidergic excitatory circuit,from tachykinin 1(Tacl)-expressing neurons in the ventrolateral periaqueductal gray(/vIPAG)to oxytocin neurons in the paraventricular hypothalamus(PVH),that mediates the enduring effects of gentle touch on social behaviors.

关 键 词：peptidergic GENTLE HYPOTHALAMUS 

分 类 号：R338[医药卫生—人体生理学]