ArticleThe Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience2022
Prolactin Action Is Necessary for Parental Behavior in Male Mice.
Article in The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.
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- Neural circuits for mammalian parental behaviour.Nature reviews. Neuroscience · 2026Review
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- A prolactin-receptive neural circuit drives maternal interactions with pups in mice.Science advances · 2026Article
- Altered responses to ghrelin and food cues in AgRP neurons during pregnancy and lactation.Journal of neuroendocrinology · 2026Article
- Convergent evolution of a conserved molecular network underlies parenting and sociality.Nature reviews. Genetics · 2026Review
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- Paternal behavior is controlled by preoptic Trpc5 neurons.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- A sexually dimorphic neuronal cluster in the mouse medial amygdala responds to male sexual status.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- The Emerging Role of Prolactin as a Biomarker for Reproduction, Health, and Welfare in Wildlife Species: Elephants as a Model.Advances in experimental medicine and biology · 2026Review
- Cell Type-Specific Hormonal Signaling Configures Hypothalamic Circuits for Parenting.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Neural plasticity supporting parental behaviors.Current opinion in neurobiology · 2025Review
- A long-lasting prolactin stimulates galactopoiesis in mice.iScience · 2025Article
- Hypothalamic prolactin signaling protects against overheating in pregnancy.Trends in neurosciences · 2025Article
- A review of the effects of different types of social behaviors on the recruitment of neuropeptides and neurotransmitters in the nucleus accumbens.Frontiers in neuroendocrinology · 2025Review
- Neuronal Properties in the Lateral Habenula and Adult-Newborn Interactions in Virgin Female and Male Mice.eNeuro · 2025Article
- The neurobiology of parenting and infant-evoked aggression.Physiological reviews · 2025Review
- A pheromone receptor in cichlid fish mediates attraction to females but inhibits male parental care.Current biology : CB · 2024Article
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- The parenting hub of the hypothalamus is a focus of imprinted gene action.PLoS genetics · 2023Article
- Overlapping representations of food and social stimuli in VTA dopamine neurons.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Parental care is critical for successful reproduction in mammals. Recent work has implicated the hormone prolactin in regulating male parental behavior, similar to its established role in females. Male laboratory mice show a mating-induced suppression of infanticide (normally observed in virgins) and onset of paternal behavior 2 weeks after mating. Using this model, we sought to investigate how prolactin acts in the forebrain to regulate paternal behavior. First, using c-fos immunoreactivity in prolactin receptor (Prlr)
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