• openAccess   Becoming a mother shifts the activity of the social and motivation brain networks in mice 

      Navarro-Moreno, Cinta; Barneo-Muñoz, Manuela; Ibáñez Gual, Maria Victoria; Lanuza, Enrique; Agustín-Pavón, Carmen; Sánchez-Catalán, María José; Martinez-Garcia, Fernando Elsevier (2022-06-03)
      During pregnancy hormones increase motivated pup-directed behaviors. We here analyze hormone-induced changes in brain activity, by comparing cFos-immunoreactivity in the sociosexual (SBN) and motivation brain networks ...
    • openAccess   Novel sampling strategy for alive animal volatolome extraction combined with GC-MS based untargeted metabolomics: Identifying mouse pup pheromones 

      Lacalle-Bergeron, Leticia; Goterris-Cerisuelo, Rafael; Portoles, Tania; Beltran Arandes, Joaquin; Sancho, Juan V; Navarro-Moreno, Cinta; Martinez-Garcia, Fernando Elsevier (2021-08-04)
      In this study, we identify 11 mouse pup volatiles putatively involved in maternal care induction in adult females. For this purpose, we have adapted the dynamic headspace methodology to extract the volatolome of whole alive ...
    • openAccess   Pregnancy Changes the Response of the Vomeronasal and Olfactory Systems to Pups in Mice 

      Navarro-Moreno, Cinta; Sánchez-Catalán, María José; Barneo-Muñoz, Manuela; Goterris-Cerisuelo, Rafael; Bellés Esteller, María; Lanuza, Enrique; Agustín-Pavón, Carmen; Martinez-Garcia, Fernando Frontiers Media (2020-12-18)
      Motherhood entails changes in behavior with increased motivation for pups, induced in part by pregnancy hormones acting upon the brain. This work explores whether this alters sensory processing of pup-derived chemosignals. ...