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Oxytocin Neurons Enable Social Transmission of Maternal Behavior

by Schuster, Luisa , Opendak, Maya , Falkner, Annegret , Mendoza, Sebastian , Diaz, Veronica , Kikusui, Takefumi , Mar, Adam , Mogi, Kazutaka , Minder, Jessica , Harper Lethin , Youssef Wadghiri , Lin, Dayu , Sullivan, Regina , Hidema, Shizu , Marlin, Bianca , Naomi Lopez Caraballo , Joyce Mendoza Navarro , Ooyama, Rumi , Nishimori, Katsuhiko , Froemke, Robert , Maria Alvarado Torres , Riceberg, Justin , Ramos, Daniel , Carcea, Ioana

in Animal behavior / Auditory plasticity / Calling behavior / Cortex (auditory) / Hypothalamus / Infants / Maternal behavior / Neuroplasticity / Neuroscience / Oxytocin / Paraventricular nucleus / Social behavior / Social interactions

2020

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Oxytocin Neurons Enable Social Transmission of Maternal Behavior

Schuster, Luisa,

Opendak, Maya,

Falkner, Annegret,

Mendoza, Sebastian,

Diaz, Veronica,

Kikusui, Takefumi,

Mar, Adam,

Mogi, Kazutaka,

Minder, Jessica,

Harper Lethin,

Youssef Wadghiri,

Lin, Dayu,

Sullivan, Regina,

Hidema, Shizu,

Marlin, Bianca,

Naomi Lopez Caraballo,

Joyce Mendoza Navarro,

Ooyama, Rumi,

Nishimori, Katsuhiko,

Froemke, Robert,

Maria Alvarado Torres,

Riceberg, Justin,

Ramos, Daniel,

Carcea, Ioana

2020

Overview

Maternal care is profoundly important for mammalian survival, and non-biological parents can express it after experience with infants. One critical molecular signal for maternal behavior is oxytocin, a hormone centrally released by hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus (PVN). Oxytocin enables plasticity within the auditory cortex, a necessary step for responding to infant vocalizations. To determine how this change occurs during natural experience, we continuously monitored homecage behavior of female virgin mice co-housed for days with an experienced mother and litter, synchronized with recordings from virgin PVN cells, including from oxytocin neurons. Mothers engaged virgins in maternal care by ensuring their nest presence, and demonstrated maternal behavior in self-generated pup retrieval episodes. These social interactions activated virgin PVN and gated behaviorally-relevant cortical plasticity for pup vocalizations. Thus rodents can acquire maternal behavior by social transmission, and our results describe a mechanism for adapting brains of adult caregivers to infant needs via endogenous oxytocin. Footnotes * Response to first round of reviewer comments.

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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press,Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory

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Animal behavior

/ Auditory plasticity

/ Infants