Postnatal maternal separation alters caregiving patterns but fails to promote anxiety- and depressive-like behaviour in C57BL/6N mouse dams
Victoria Mordvinova, Tamara Trowsse, Marie‐Claude Audet
This study examines the effects of maternal separation on caregiving and anxiety-depressive behaviors in C57BL/6N mice, finding no promotion of anxiety- and depressive-like behaviors but altered caregiving patterns and gene expression correlations.
bioRxiv · Sep 25, 2026 · PreprintAnimal Behavior & Cognition