Males located caudally in the uterus affect sexual behavior of male rats in adulthood
| Autor: | C.E. Gebauer, A.K. Slob, J. Juranek, David L. Rowland, E.J. Houtsmuller |
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| Rok vydání: | 1994 |
| Předmět: |
Male
medicine.medical_specialty Sex Differentiation Ejaculation Uterus Biology Affect (psychology) Sexual Behavior Animal Behavioral Neuroscience Pregnancy Internal medicine Copulation Male rats Reaction Time medicine Animals Testosterone Sexual Maturation Fetus Sexual differentiation Uterine horns Rats medicine.anatomical_structure Endocrinology Sexual behavior Prenatal Exposure Delayed Effects Female |
| Zdroj: | Behavioural Brain Research. 62:119-125 |
| ISSN: | 0166-4328 |
| Popis: | It has been suggested that the sexual differentiation of female rats is affected by androgens from male fetuses in the uterine horn (intra-uterine position phenomenon). Effects of adjacent males, as well as of males located caudally in the uterus have been reported. The present study investigated whether male rats, like females, are affected by the presence of either caudal or adjacent male littermates. When tested in adulthood for sexual behavior, males that had male fetuses located caudally in the uterine horn showed shorter latencies to the first mount or intromission and shorter latencies to ejaculation, and exhibited more mounts and intromissions per minute than males that lacked caudal male siblings in the uterus. The presence of adjacent males did not significantly affect the parameters studied in this experiment. |
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