Nest making and oxytocin comparably promote wound healing

…in rats.

Obviously we can't count on using oxytocin to scab over the road rash after the next losing battle with the pavement. After all, no one reading this, I'm guessing, is a rodent. However, last year researchers at Massachussets General Hospital published results demonstrating the healing effect of oxytocin (and, more directly, nest building) in an animal study. This work connects to other findings over the years about the relationship between stress and rate of healing.

Read the abstract from the National Institutes of Health here.

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