Time-lapse calcium imaging showing the neural activity in OFC of female mouse at alloparental day 2
Description
The authors investigated the neural activity of the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC) during the parental behavior of retrieving pups at three maternal stages: AP1 (alloparental day 1), AP2 (alloparental day 1), and LM (lactating mother stage). A virgin female showing more than five pup-retrievals per session for the first time was defined as AP1 and the day following AP1 was defined as AP2. At AP1 and AP2, the pup-retrievals were examined using pups born from another female mouse. For the calcium imaging, the transgenic female mouse (Rbp4-Cre; Ai162 mouse) expressing GCaMP6s in the layer 5 pyramidal cells of the orbitofrontal cortex was used. The signal of GCaMP6s was obtained through gradient refractive index (GRIN) lens (500 micrometres in diameter) implanted above layer 5 of the OFC. This dataset includes the imaging data at AP2. The data at AP1 and LM obtained from the same female mouse are deposited in other datasets in this project; Fig2_Rbp4_Ai162_MD_F6_210329_AP1, and Fig2_Rbp4_Ai162_MD_F6_210421_LM.