Preparatory neurons for building a nest

Onur Iyilikci; Marcelo O Dietrich

doi:10.1016/j.neuron.2022.03.023

Preparatory neurons for building a nest

Neuron. 2022 Apr 20;110(8):1283-1285. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2022.03.023.

Authors

Onur Iyilikci¹, Marcelo O Dietrich²

Affiliations

¹ Laboratory of Physiology of Behavior, Department of Comparative Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
² Laboratory of Physiology of Behavior, Department of Comparative Medicine, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA; Yale Center for Molecular and Systems Metabolism, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA; Department of Neuroscience, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA. Electronic address: [email protected].

PMID: 35447098
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuron.2022.03.023

Abstract

Mothers build nests in anticipation of the delivery of their offspring. How the brain coordinates this behavior is unknown. Topilko et al. (2022) demonstrate that nest building in pregnant females relies on the activity of peptidergic neurons in the Edinger-Westphal nucleus.

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MeSH terms

Animals
Brain*
Female
Nesting Behavior
Neurons* / physiology
Pregnancy