Fig. 2From: Deficient maternal care resulting from immunological stress during pregnancy is associated with a sex-dependent enhancement of conditioned fear in the offspringEffects of maternal immune challenge in late gestation on postpartum maternal behavior. Pregnant mice on gestation day 17 were subjected to the viral mimic PolyI:C (POL) or vehicle (saline, SAL) treatment, and maternal behavior was assessed from postnatal days 1–7. Each individual maternal behavior was expressed as a proportion (in percent) of the total maternal behavioral scores, and is depicted as a function of postnatal days (line plots) as well as average over the 7-days observation period (bar plots). For both experimental conditions, N = 8. Symbol (*) refers to a statistical significance of p < 0.05. All values are means ± SEMBack to article page