Maternal aggression

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Gammie, S.C. and Stevenson, S.A. (2006) Effect of daily and acute restraint stress during lactation on maternal aggression and behavior in mice. Stress. 9, 171-180. 

Yoshimura H, Watanabe K, Ogawa N. (1988b). Acute and chronic effects of ginseng saponins on maternal aggression in mice. Eur J Pharmacol. 150(3) 319-24. 

Wysocki, 1989) reduces ultrasonic vocalizations by male mice when a female is present (Wysocki etal., 1982) and abolishes maternal aggression in primiparous female mice (Lepri etal., 1985). Deafferentiation of the VNO in male mice impairs sexual behavior. The effect is greatest if the male was deafferentiated before experience with any adult female (Clancy etal., 1984). Aggressive behavior in male mice is less reduced after deafferentiation of the VNO if they had had fighting experience (Daranzoet a /., 1983). 

Ferreira, A., Dahlof, L. G., and Hansen, S. (1987). Olfactory mechanisms in the control of maternal aggression, appetite, and fearfulness effects of lesions to olfactory receptors, mediodorsal thalamic nucleus, and insular prefrontal cortex. Behavioral Neuroscience 101, 709-717. 

Gammie SC, Nelson RJ (1999) Maternal aggression is reduced in neuronal nitric oxide synthase-deficient mice. J Neurosci 19 8027-8035 Caspar P, Cases O, Maroteaux L (2003) The developmental role of serotonin news from mouse molecular genetics. Nat Rev Neurosci 4 1002-1012 Gobbi G, Murphy DL, Lesch K, Blier P (2001) Modifications of the serotonergic system in mice lacking serotonin transporters an in vivo electrophysiological study. J Pharmacol Exp Ther 296 987-995... 

Hien, D. and Honeyman, T. (2000) A closer look at the drug abuse-maternal aggression mk. Journal of Interpersonal Violence 15, 5, 503-522. 

Neuronal Nitric Oxide Synthase and Maternal Aggression... 

Nitric oxide (NO) has also been implicated in certain maternal behaviors, including the timing of parturition in rats and olfactory memory formation in lactating sheep (Gammie and Nelson, 1999), as well as aggression and maternal aggression. Nitric oxide is produced from L-arginine by three different tissue-localized nitric oxide synthase (NOS) enzymes neuronal (nNOS), en-... 

Gammie, S.C., and Nelson R.J. (1999) Maternal aggression is reduced in neuronal nitric oxide synthase-deficient mice./ Neurosci 19 8027-8035. 

Bosch OJ, Meddle SL, Beiderbeck DI, Douglas AJ, Neumann ID (2005) Brain oxytocin correlates with maternal aggression link to anxiety. J Neurosci 25 6807-6815. 

Wolff, J. 0., 1985, Maternal aggression as a deterrent to infanticide in Peromyscus leucopus and P. maniculatus, Anim. Behav., 33 117. 

Fig. 4. Percent of animals responding with at least one attack or fight during a 5-min test session. Males in Trained Fighter I and Trained Fighter II are the same those in Trained Fighter III are different. The females in Maternal Aggression III were the aggressive SHAM females from Maternal Aggression I. See text for details.

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