The neurobiology of parenting and infant-evoked aggression

HS Kaplan, PM Horvath, MM Rahman… - Physiological …, 2025‏ - journals.physiology.org
Parenting behavior comprises a variety of adult-infant and adult-adult interactions across
multiple timescales. The state transition from nonparent to parent requires an extensive …

[HTML][HTML] What is the best housing temperature to translate mouse experiments to humans?

J Keijer, M Li, JR Speakman - Molecular metabolism, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Objectives Ambient temperature im**es on energy metabolism in a body size dependent
manner. This has implications for the housing temperature at which mice are best compared …

[HTML][HTML] The long-lasting shadow of litter size in rodents: litter size is an underreported variable that strongly determines adult physiology

M Parra-Vargas, SG Bouret, JC Bruning… - Molecular …, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Abstract Background/Purpose Litter size is a biological variable that strongly influences adult
physiology in rodents. Despite evidence from previous decades and recent studies …

Hot dogs: High ambient temperatures impact reproductive success in a tropical carnivore

R Woodroffe, R Groom, JW McNutt - Journal of Animal Ecology, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
Climate change imposes an urgent need to recognise and conserve the species likely to be
worst affected. However, while ecologists have mostly explored indirect effects of rising …

Late lactation in small mammals is a critically sensitive window of vulnerability to elevated ambient temperature

ZJ Zhao, C Hambly, LL Shi, ZQ Bi, J Cao… - Proceedings of the …, 2020‏ - pnas.org
Predicted increases in global average temperature are physiologically trivial for most
endotherms. However, heat waves will also increase in both frequency and severity, and …

Switching off the furnace: brown adipose tissue and lactation

E Król, JR Speakman - Molecular aspects of medicine, 2019‏ - Elsevier
In rodents, brown adipose tissue (BAT) is dynamically regulated by reproductive state, with
greater thermogenic activity and capacity outside reproduction and subsequent …

Exposure to hot temperatures during lactation in Swiss mice stunts offspring growth and decreases future reproductive performance of female offspring

MH Bao, LB Chen, C Hambly… - Journal of …, 2020‏ - journals.biologists.com
Exposure to high temperatures (heatwaves) is rapidly emerging as an important issue of
climate change, in particular for female mammals during lactation. High temperatures …

[HTML][HTML] Effect of different ambient temperatures on reproductive outcome and stress level of lactating females in two mouse strains

T Kolbe, C Lassnig, A Poelzl, R Palme, KE Auer… - Animals, 2022‏ - mdpi.com
Simple Summary The optimal temperature for laboratory mice has been under discussion for
some time. Current standard temperature is 20° C–24° C but it has been suggested to …

Sustained energy intake in lactating Swiss mice: a dual modulation process

J Wen, S Tan, QG Qiao, WJ Fan… - Journal of …, 2017‏ - journals.biologists.com
Limits to sustained energy intake (SusEI) during lactation are important because they
provide an upper boundary below which females must trade off competing physiological …

[HTML][HTML] Rearing mice at 22° C programs increased capacity to respond to chronic exposure to cold but not high fat diet

D Neri, AM Ramos-Lobo, S Lee, A Lafond… - Molecular Metabolism, 2023‏ - Elsevier
Objective Rodent models raised at environmental temperatures of 21–22° C are
increasingly switched to thermoneutral housing conditions in adulthood to better capture …