Why mother rats protect their children.

Elife

Laboratory of Emotions Neurobiology, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Warsaw, Poland.

Published: June 2017

The presence of the hormone oxytocin in the central amygdala makes a mother rat willing to put her life in danger in order to protect her offspring.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5469613PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.28514DOI Listing

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