Publications

Publications​

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Hiura, L.C., Lazaro, V. A., Ophir, A. G. Paternal absence and increased caregiving independently and interactively shape the development of male prairie voles at subadult and adult life stages. Horm. Behav. 164, 105605 (2024).

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Monari, P., Hammond, E., Malone, C., Cuarenta, A., Hiura, L., Wallace, K., Taylor, L., Pradhan, D. Leveraging individual power to improve racial equity in academia. Horm. Behav. 152, 105358 (2023).

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Hiura, L. C., & Donaldson, R. Z. Prairie vole pair bonding and plasticity of the social brain. Trends Neurosci. 46(4), 260-262 (2023).

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Lee, W., Hiura, L., Yang, E., Broekman, K., Ophir, A., Curley, J. Social status in mouse social hierarchies is associated with variation in oxytocin and vasopressin 1a receptor densities. Horm. Behav. 114, 104551 (2019). 

 

Hiura, L. C., Kelly, A. M. & Ophir, A. G. Age-specific and context-specific responses of the medial extended amygdala in the developing prairie vole. Dev. Neurobiol. 78, 1231–1245 (2018).​

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Hiura, L. C. & Ophir, A. G. Interactions of sex and early life social experiences at two developmental stages shape nonapeptide receptor profiles. Integr. Zool. 13, 745–760 (2018).

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Kelly, A. M., Hiura, L. C. & Ophir, A. G. Rapid nonapeptide synthesis during a critical period of development in the prairie vole: plasticity of the paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus. Brain Struct. Funct. 223, 1–14 (2018).

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Hiura, L. C., Tan, L. & Hackenberg, T. D. To free, or not to free: Social reinforcement effects in the social release paradigm with rats. Behav. Processes 152, (2018).

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Kelly, A. M., Hiura, L. C., Saunders, A. G. & Ophir, A. G. Oxytocin Neurons Exhibit Extensive Functional Plasticity Due To Offspring Age in Mothers and Fathers. Integr. Comp. Biol. 57, 603–618 (2017).

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