Postnatal melatonin administration to stressed dams for ameliorating risk-taking behaviour in rat pups through maternal care improvement.
Farzaneh BagheriIran GoudarziPublished in: International journal of developmental neuroscience : the official journal of the International Society for Developmental Neuroscience (2023)
It was concluded that prenatal restraint stress could impair stress responses and quality of maternal care, whereas postnatal melatonin administration potentially contributed to the normalization of stress reaction and anxiolysis.