{"id":169302,"date":"2023-08-08T16:29:57","date_gmt":"2023-08-08T21:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/tracing-maternal-behavior-to-brain-immune-function"},"modified":"2023-08-08T16:29:57","modified_gmt":"2023-08-08T21:29:57","slug":"tracing-maternal-behavior-to-brain-immune-function","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/08\/tracing-maternal-behavior-to-brain-immune-function","title":{"rendered":"Tracing maternal behavior to brain immune function"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/tracing-maternal-behavior-to-brain-immune-function3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Immune system changes in the pregnant body that protect the fetus appear to extend to the brain, where a decrease in immune cells late in gestation may factor into the onset of maternal behavior, new research in rats suggests.<\/p>\n<p>In adult female rats that had never given birth\u2014which typically don\u2019t like being around babies\u2014depletion of these cells sped up their care for rat newborns that were placed in their cage.<\/p>\n<p>The loss of these cells, called microglia, and the related uptick in motherly attentiveness were also associated with changes to <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/neuron+activity\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">neuron activity<\/a> in several regions of the rat brain, suggesting shifts in <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/immune+function\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">immune function<\/a> have a role in regulating <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/maternal+behavior\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">maternal behavior<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Immune system changes in the pregnant body that protect the fetus appear to extend to the brain, where a decrease in immune cells late in gestation may factor into the onset of maternal behavior, new research in rats suggests. In adult female rats that had never given birth\u2014which typically don\u2019t like being around babies\u2014depletion of [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-169302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=169302"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}