Pregnancy Lactation Mice
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Analysis of Electrocardiograms and Behavior in Mice from Pregnancy to Lactation Period
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2024
A simultaneous recording of autonomic activity and detailed maternal behavior of mother mice from pregnancy to lactation was achieved using a telemetry system. This method helps to understand the dynamics of the physiological and behavioral characteristics in mothers from pregnancy to weaning.
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Colorimetric Assay for Quantification of Lactate in Test Samples
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2025
This video describes a colorimetric assay for lactate measurement in cell lysates by using the lactate dehydrogenase enzyme. This enzyme converts lactate into pyruvate, along with the conversion of NAD to NADH that reacts with tetrazolium dyes and gives a colored product that can be measured spectrophotometrically to quantitate the lactate.
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Using Chronic Social Stress to Model Postpartum Depression in Lactating Rodents
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2013
This article describes the use of chronic resident intruder social stress as an ethologically relevant paradigm to model postpartum depression and anxiety in lactating rodents.
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High-frequency Ultrasonography Based Early Pregnancy Characterization: A Technique to Study Embryo Implantation and Pregnancy Progression in Pregnant Murine Model
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2025
In this video, we demonstrate high-frequency ultrasonography to image embryo implantation sites in a pregnant murine model. This imaging technique successfully detects viable pregnancy and characterizes embryo-implantation sites during early murine pregnancy.
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Assessment of Maternal Vascular Remodeling During Pregnancy in the Mouse Uterus
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2015
This protocol describes a technique to assess changes in the maternal vasculature during pregnancy in mice. Using stereological methods, remodeling of the decidual spiral arteries is assessed quantitatively and the results confirmed qualitatively using immunohistochemistry.
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During pregnancy, rising reproductive hormones do more than prepare the body for parturition. They coordinate physiological and brain changes that alter the behavioral context surrounding birth. This makes pregnancy a useful period for examining how endocrine signals influence motivation and the emergence of maternal responses before offspring care begins.
Prolactin primarily supports milk production, whereas oxytocin mediates milk release. This distinction separates sustaining the nutritional supply from triggering its delivery to offspring. In behavioral studies, it provides a physiological framework for relating lactation state to nursing and other maternal behaviors without treating all reproductive hormones as interchangeable signals.
These behaviors provide observable indicators of maternal care and its changing expression across reproductive states. Nesting reflects preparation for offspring, while nursing, grooming, and protection represent direct forms of care after birth. Monitoring this behavioral range helps investigators connect neuroendocrine changes with motivation, caregiving, and interactions between mothers and offspring.
These models support examination of motivation, stress responses, cognition, and social interactions alongside maternal behavior. Pregnancy and lactation therefore provide a reproductive context for asking whether neuroendocrine changes coincide with shifts across several behavioral domains. The approach broadens analysis beyond caregiving alone and links reproductive physiology to general behavioral function.
Researchers can relate behavioral observations during pregnancy and lactation to maternal care and postpartum health. The same model also supports investigation of offspring development, allowing maternal behavior to be considered alongside consequences for the young. This combination makes reproductive-state studies relevant to both normal caregiving and changes that emerge after birth.
Pregnancy and lactation produce coordinated hormonal, physiological, and behavioral changes that can be examined in relation to stress responses, motivation, and social interactions. Consequently, these mice provide context for studying disorders that affect reproductive or affective behavior. Their value lies in connecting reproductive state with behavioral processes that may change around parturition and nursing.