Publication Date:
1979-11-30
Description:
Male mice release luteinizing hormone when exposed for a short time to a female. In this experiment, multiple blood samples were withdrawn by atrial cannulas from tethered males during either continuous or intermittent exposure to nonreceptive females. After an immediate, transient release of luteinizing hormone, continuous exposure to the same female was accompanied by only random, spontaneous elevations in plasma levels of this hormone. Successive presentations of the same female at 2-hour intervals elicited gradually diminishing luteinizing hormone responses. Exposing such unresponsive males to novel, diestrous females, however, dramatically stimulated their release of the hormone. These results demonstrate habituation of a socially induced, neuroendocrine response involving reproductive hormones.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Coquelin, A -- Bronson, F H -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1979 Nov 30;206(4422):1099-101.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/573924" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Animals
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Arousal/physiology
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Diestrus
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Female
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Habituation, Psychophysiologic/*physiology
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Luteinizing Hormone/*metabolism
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Male
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Mice
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Pregnancy
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Sexual Behavior, Animal/physiology
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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