Freezing suppression by oxytocin in central amygdala allows alternate defensive behaviours and mother-pup interactions
When animals and their offspring are threatened, parents switch from self-defense to offspring protection. How self-defense is suppressed remains elusive. We postulated that suppression of the self-defense response, freezing, is gated via oxytocin acting in the centro-lateral amygdala (CeL). We foun...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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eLife Sciences Publications Ltd
2017-06-01
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| Series: | eLife |
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| Online Access: | https://elifesciences.org/articles/24080 |