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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychoneuroendocrinology. 2021 Jun 18;131:105332. doi: 10.1016/j.psyneuen.2021.105332

Figure 2. Effects of oxytocin receptor knockdown in the dorsal raphe on maternal caregiving behaviors.

Figure 2.

Percentage of dams with pup loss (A) and dam body weight change (G) of scrambled-vector treated (Scrambled) and shRNA-vector treated (OTRKD) mothers. Frequency of mothers in the nest (B), nursing (C), nursing in a kyphotic posture (D), non-pup directed behavior (E), perioral activity (F), and ingestive behaviors (G) by Scrambled and OTRKD dams. All data are presented as Mean ± SEM. * above bars indicates significant differences between groups, p < 0.05.