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Dopamine drives persistent remodelling of the maternal brain - Nature

Dopamine drives persistent remodelling of the maternal brain - Nature

Brain-wide transcriptomic profiling in mice reveals that reproductive experience remodels the maternal brain by altering dopamine dynamics in the dorsal hippocampal formation, causing dopamine-dependent histone post-translational modifications, and thereby ch…

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Brain tissues used in this study were provided by the Douglas Brain Bank (RRID:SCR_025991) with ethical approval from the Research Ethics Board (REB) of the Centre Intégré Univers… [+40923 chars]

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