Urinary oxytocin as a noninvasive biomarker of positive emotion in dogs
| Autor: | Kazutaka Mogi, Miho Nagasawa, Mitsuaki Ohta, Nobuyo Ohtani, Mariko Yamamoto, Takefumi Kikusui, Shohei Mitsui |
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| Rok vydání: | 2011 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Hydrocortisone Urinary system Emotions Oxytocin Behavioral Neuroscience Eating Endocrinology Dogs Internal medicine Physical Conditioning Animal medicine Animals Noninvasive biomarkers Massage Behavior Animal Endocrine and Autonomic Systems Radioimmunoassay Positive emotion Biomarker (medicine) Psychology Biomarkers medicine.drug |
| Zdroj: | Hormones and behavior. 60(3) |
| ISSN: | 1095-6867 |
| Popis: | A reliable assay based on physiological parameters that does not require subjective input from the owners is required to assess positive emotions in dogs. In addition, when viewed from an animal welfare perspective, physiological parameters should be collected in a noninvasive manner. Oxytocin (OT) is a biomarker that may be associated with a calm, relaxed state, and positive emotion. We measured the time-lapse in the concentration of plasma OT relative to urinary OT using a radioimmunoassay with sufficient sensitivity and low variability, and examined the relationship between OT and cortisol. Six dogs were injected with exogenous OT intravenously to increase the blood OT concentration. As a result, the highest concentration of urinary OT occurred 1h after the injection, although there was little change in urinary cortisol. Moreover, to evaluate the influence of stimuli on urinary OT and cortisol, we provided three stimuli of eating food, exercising and stroking, all of which were assumed to inspire a positive emotion in dogs, and significantly increased urinary OT concentrations. Our findings indicate that urinary OT might be useful as a noninvasive and objective biomarker of positive emotion in dogs. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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