OXT and Anxiety: Very interestingly, prenatal OXTR deficiency potentiates maternal diabetes-mediated anxiety-like behavior while again having little effect on ALB, which is consistent with previous findings that OXT is associated with anxiety, but not necessarily with ALB (Yoshida et al., 2009; Puglia et al., 2015, 2018; Duque-Wilckens et al., 2020).