Tufts University Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine

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Behavior

Using Chronic Social Stress to Model Postpartum Depression in Lactating Rodents

Lindsay M. Carini¹, Christopher A. Murgatroyd², Benjamin C. Nephew¹

¹Biomedical Sciences, Tufts University Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine, ²School of Healthcare Sciences, Manchester Metropolitan University

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.