TABLE 2.

Spearman’s correlations between time duration spent for behaviours toward distressed cage mates and percentages of oxytocin receptor‐expressing neurones showing c‐Fos protein in various brain regions in oxytocin receptor‐Venus knock‐in heterozygous female mice

Brain regions	Allogrooming		Side‐by‐side contact		Sniffing
	Spearman’s r	P value	Spearman’s r	P value	Spearman’s r	P value
Anterior olfactory nucleus	0.55	.019	0.42	.080	−0.0062	.98
Cingulate cortex	0.29	.21	0.18	.44	0.36	.12
Insular cortex	0.66	.0027	0.33	.18	0.022	.93
Dorsal part of the lateral septum	0.58	.0075	0.39	.094	0.13	.58
Ventral part of the lateral septum	0.49	.027	0.25	.29	0.58	.0079
Medial amygdala	0.76	.0006	0.45	.073	0.16	.55