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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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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd
2017
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5469614/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28606306 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.24080 |