Neuroanatomical Circuitry for Mammalian Maternal Behavior a
Neuroanatomical Circuitry for Mammalian Maternal Behavior a
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哺乳动物母性行为的神经解剖回路
DOI:
10.1111/j.1749-6632.1997.tb51915.x
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发表时间:
1997
影响因子:
5.2
通讯作者:
Teige P. Sheehan
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文献类型:
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作者:
M. Numan;Teige P. Sheehan
This paper presents an overview of the neural circuitry underlying maternal behavior in mammals. Because most of this work has been done on the rat, our review concentrates on that species. The hormonal events of late pregnancy, in particular, rising estrogen and prolactin levels and declining progesterone levels, are necessary for stimulating the onset of maternal behavior at parturition in primiparous females of many mammalian species.’ An important process to understand is the neural mechanisms influenced by ‘‘maternal hormones.” Several recent reviews argue that maternal behavior is facilitated when the tendency to approach infant stimuli and engage in maternal behavior is greater than the tendency to avoid or withdraw from such stimuli.’“ This kind of analysis suggests that the hormonal events of late pregnancy act on brain mechanisms to either decrease fear/aversion of infant stimuli or increase attractiodapproach towards infant stimuli, or both. These possibilities are illustrated in FIGURE 1. Several pieces of evidence support this scheme: (1) Nulliparous females of many mammalian species avoid or attack neonates.‘ Indeed, nulliparous female rats move out of the preferred part of their home cage if pups are placed there? (2) Although nonpregnant rats and sheep either show no preference for or actively avoid olfactory stimuli associated with neonates, animals that have been exposed to the hormonal events of late pregnancy show a strong attraction to such (3) Although the nulliparous female rat will not show immediate maternal responsiveness towards its young, if she is cohabited with them, she will come to show maternal behavior after about 5-7 days.’ This latency to respond can be shortened by a hormone regimen that mimics the endocrine changes of late pregnancy.’ Importantly, this latency can also be reduced in nonhormone-primed nulliparous females by making them anosmic.* Such females show maternal behavior after about only 24 hours of pup exposure. These findings have been interpreted to mean that nulliparous females find olfactory stimuli from young aversive and that maternal behavior will occur only after the aversive nature of such stimuli has been reduced by either habituation, hormonal effects, or experimentally induced a n ~ s m i a . ~ , ~ The effects of anosmia on maternal behavior in nulliparous rats support the model shown in FIGURE 1A: approach and attraction to nonolfactory stimuli may be relatively high in the absence of hormone treatment, and the hormonal events of late pregnancy downregulate the aversionproducing influence of pup odors.’ However, the fact that anosmic virgins do not
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DOI:
10.1073/pnas.91.1.400
发表时间:
1994-01-04
影响因子:
11.1
作者:
WANG, ZX;FERRIS, CF;DEVRIES, GJ
通讯作者:
DEVRIES, GJ
影响因子:
1.9
作者:
Stern,JM;Kolunie,JM
通讯作者:
Kolunie,JM
影响因子:
1.9
作者:
PEDERSEN, CA;CALDWELL, JD;MASON, GA
通讯作者:
MASON, GA
影响因子:
1.9
作者:
Corodimas,KP;Rosenblatt,JS;Canfield,ME;Morrell,JI
通讯作者:
Morrell,JI
影响因子:
6.1
作者:
Pedersen,CA;Caldwell,JD;McGuire,M;Evans,DL
通讯作者:
Evans,DL