Acute Illness Induces the Release of Aversive Odor Cues From Adult, but Not Prepubertal, Male Rats and Suppresses Social Investigation by Conspecifics

Behavioral Neuroscience

Volumn 123, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 964-978

  Arakawa, Hiroyuki ^a   Arakawa, Keiko ^a   Deak, Terrence ^a  

^a BINGHAMTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

gonadal hormone; immune competence; inflammation; odorant communication; sickness odor

Indexed keywords

ANDROSTANOLONE; ESTRADIOL BENZOATE; ESTROGEN RECEPTOR; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDE; SEX HORMONE; TESTOSTERONE PROPIONATE;

ACUTE DISEASE; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; AVERSION; AVOIDANCE BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; HORMONE ACTION; ILLNESS BEHAVIOR; INFLAMMATION; MALE; NONHUMAN; ODOR; PREPUBERTY; RAT; SENSORY STIMULATION; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR;

ACUTE-PHASE REACTION; AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ANDROGENS; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; DIHYDROTESTOSTERONE; ESTRADIOL; ESTROGENS; FEMALE; INJECTIONS, INTRAPERITONEAL; LIPOPOLYSACCHARIDES; MALE; ODORS; OLFACTORY PERCEPTION; PUBERTY; RATS; RATS, SPRAGUE-DAWLEY; SEX FACTORS; SMELL; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; TESTOSTERONE PROPIONATE;

EID: 70350116980     PISSN: 07357044     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0017114     Document Type: Article

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