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Postnatal maternal separation alters caregiving patterns but fails to promote anxiety- and depressive-like behaviour in C57BL/6N mouse dams

Stressors experienced during the postnatal period may increase vulnerability to mental health disorders, including postpartum depression and anxiety. In rodents, maternal separation (MS) has been shown to alter behaviours in dams, but these observations have been made almost exclusively in rats and thus robust mouse models of postpartum mental health disorders using this stressor remain limited.…

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