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Elevated stress sensitivity in corticotropin-releasing factor receptor 2 deficient mice decreases maternal, but not intermale aggression.
Behavioural brain research - 7 May 2005
Gammie Stephen C, Hasen Nina S, Stevenson Sharon A, Bale Tracy L, D'Anna Kimberly L
Abstract excerpt
Maternal aggression is a form of aggression towards intruders by lactating females that is critical for defense of offspring. During lactation, fear and anxiety are reduced, the CNS is less responsive to the anxiogenic neuropeptide, corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF), and central injections of CRF inhibit maternal aggression. Together, these previous findings suggest that decreased CRF neurotransmission during...
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