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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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Pubblicato in:eLife
Autori principali: Rickenbacher, Elizabeth, Perry, Rosemarie E, Sullivan, Regina M, Moita, Marta A
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Lingua:Inglês
Pubblicazione: eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2017
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Accesso online:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5469614/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28606306
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.24080
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