Reunion behavior after social separation is associated with enhanced HPA recovery in young marmoset monkeys.

ABSTRACT: The relationships that offspring develop with caregivers can exert a powerful influence on behavior and physiology, including the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis. In many mammalian species, offspring-caregiver relationships are largely limited to interactions with mother. Marmoset monkeys receive care in early life from multiple classes of caregivers in addition to the mother, including fathers and siblings. We evaluated whether affiliative social interactions with family members in marmosets were associated with differences in cortisol reactivity to a short-term social separation stressor, and whether these variations in affiliative interactions upon reunion predicted how well marmosets subsequently regulated HPA axis function after cessation of the stressor. Marmosets were sepa

SUBMITTER: Taylor JH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4437813 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature