… neurons project have not been determined. Since MPOA and VBST neurons express Fos
during maternal behavior, … procedure to detect both Fos and a retrograde tracer, wheat germ …

… sites that express c-fos after maternal behaviour in lactating … role in the control of maternal
behaviour in female rats. … in projection neurons, since they could potentially interfere with …

… the medial or the lateral preoptic area disrupt maternal behavior … projections of the preoptic
region may influence maternal … neurons in the preoptic region and ventral BNST expressing …

… of cells expressing c-Fos after 2 h of pup exposure, while Fos B … maternal behavior, suggesting
that c-Fos is marking neurons … The c-fos and fos B genes contain SRE and CRE sites in …

… are located, one could trace their efferent projections. … subnuclei of the preoptic area and
bed nucleus of the stria terminalis for a virgin female rat in the maternal behavior group (MB; left)…

… be under the influence of Fos expressing neurons in the MPOA/… and the ventral part of the
bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (… /vBST-to-LSi projection in maternal behavior control, in the …

… Maternal behavior is associated with an increase in the … (MPOA) and ventral bed nucleus
of the stria terminalis (vBST). … that MPOA projections to LSi may affect the LSi c-Fos response, …

… A primary goal of this report is to fit the medial preoptic area … that this projection influences
maternal behavior by relaying … preoptic area-bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (POA-BNST) …

… /vBNST projections innervate midbrain neurons in the ventral … of maternal behavior suggest
that maternal behavior occurs … of Fos-expressing neurons in the mPOA/vBNST of maternal …

… projection patterns and the molecular characteristics of c-Fos-… surrounding areas such as the
bed nucleus of stria terminalis … -Fos-expressing subregions we determined the specific area …