Freezing suppression by oxytocin in central amygdala allows alternate defensive behaviours and mother-pup interactions
When animals 624 and their offspring are threatened, parents switch from self-defense to offspring protection.How self-defense is suppressed remains elusive.We postulated that suppression of the self-defense response, freezing, is gated via oxytocin acting in the centro-lateral amygdala (CeL).We found that rat dams conditioned to fear an odor, froz