NDLI: Male risk taking, female odors, and the role of estrogen receptors.

Content Provider	World Health Organization (WHO)-Global Index Medicus
Author	Kavaliers, Martin Clipperton-Allen, Amy Cragg, Cheryl L. Gustafsson, Jan-Åke Korach, Kenneth S. Muglia, Louis Choleris, Elena
Description	Country affiliation: Canada Author Affiliation: Kavaliers M ( Dept. of Psychology, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada. kavalier@uwo.ca)
Abstract	Male risk-taking and decision making are affected by sex-related cues, with men making riskier choices and decisions after exposure to either women or stimuli associated with women. In non-human species females and, or their cues can also increase male risk taking. Under the ecologically relevant condition of predation threat, brief exposure of male mice to the odors of a sexually receptive novel female reduces the avoidance of, and aversive responses to, a predator. We briefly review evidence showing that estrogen receptors (ERs), ER and ERß, are associated with the mediation of these risk taking responses. We show that ERs influence the production of the female odors that affect male risk taking, with the odors of wild type (ER WT, ERßWT), oxytocin (OT) wildtype (OTWT), gene-deleted 'knock-out' ERß (ERßKO), but not ER KO or oxytocin (OT) OTKO or ovariectomized (OVX) female mice reducing the avoidance responses of male mice to cat odor. We further show that administration of specific ER and ERß agonists to OVX females results in their odors increasing male risk taking and boldness towards a predator. We also review evidence that ERs are involved in the mediation of the responses of males to female cues, with ER being associated with the sexual and both ERß and ER with the sexual and social mechanisms underlying the effects of female cues on male risk taking. The implications and relations of these findings with rodents to ERs and the regulation of human risk taking are briefly considered.
File Format	HTM / HTML
ISSN	00319384
e-ISSN	1873507X
DOI	10.1016/j.physbeh.2012.03.017
Journal	Physiology & Behavior
Issue Number	5
Volume Number	107
Language	English
Publisher	Elsevier
Publisher Date	2012-12-05
Publisher Place	United States
Access Restriction	Open
Subject Keyword	Cues Nociception Sexual Behavior, Animal Research Support, Non-u.s. Gov't Olfactory Perception Risk-taking Behavior, Animal Discipline Physiology Animals Odors Estrogen Receptor Alpha Physiology Mice Discipline Behavioral Neuroscience
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Experimental and Cognitive Psychology Behavioral Neuroscience

Sl.	Authority	Responsibilities	Communication Details
1	Ministry of Education (GoI), Department of Higher Education	Sanctioning Authority	https://www.education.gov.in/ict-initiatives
2	Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	Host Institute of the Project: The host institute of the project is responsible for providing infrastructure support and hosting the project	https://www.iitkgp.ac.in
3	National Digital Library of India Office, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur	The administrative and infrastructural headquarters of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in
4	Project PI / Joint PI	Principal Investigator and Joint Principal Investigators of the project	Dr. B. Sutradhar bsutra@ndl.gov.in Prof. Saswat Chakrabarti will be added soon
5	Website/Portal (Helpdesk)	Queries regarding NDLI and its services	support@ndl.gov.in
6	Contents and Copyright Issues	Queries related to content curation and copyright issues	content@ndl.gov.in
7	National Digital Library of India Club (NDLI Club)	Queries related to NDLI Club formation, support, user awareness program, seminar/symposium, collaboration, social media, promotion, and outreach	clubsupport@ndl.gov.in
8	Digital Preservation Centre (DPC)	Assistance with digitizing and archiving copyright-free printed books	dpc@ndl.gov.in
9	IDR Setup or Support	Queries related to establishment and support of Institutional Digital Repository (IDR) and IDR workshops	idr@ndl.gov.in

Transient reversal of olfactory preference following castration in male rats: Implication for estrogen receptor involvement.

Male risk taking, female odors, and the role of estrogen receptors

Oxytocin, vasopressin and estrogen receptor gene expression in relation to social recognition in female mice.

Short-term anxiety response of the subterranean rodent Ctenomys talarum to odors from a predator.

Another role highlighted for estrogens in the male: sexual behavior.

Disruption of urinary odor preference and lordosis behavior in female mice given lesions of the medial amygdala.

Multiple estrogen receptor subtypes influence ingestive behavior in female rodents.

Blocking oxytocin receptors inhibits vaginal marking to male odors in female Syrian hamsters.

Abolition of male sexual behaviors in mice lacking estrogen receptors alpha and beta (alpha beta ERKO).

Male risk taking, female odors, and the role of estrogen receptors.

Similar Documents

Transient reversal of olfactory preference following castration in male rats: Implication for estrogen receptor involvement.

Male risk taking, female odors, and the role of estrogen receptors

Oxytocin, vasopressin and estrogen receptor gene expression in relation to social recognition in female mice.

Short-term anxiety response of the subterranean rodent Ctenomys talarum to odors from a predator.

Another role highlighted for estrogens in the male: sexual behavior.

Disruption of urinary odor preference and lordosis behavior in female mice given lesions of the medial amygdala.

Multiple estrogen receptor subtypes influence ingestive behavior in female rodents.

Blocking oxytocin receptors inhibits vaginal marking to male odors in female Syrian hamsters.

Abolition of male sexual behaviors in mice lacking estrogen receptors alpha and beta (alpha beta ERKO).

Male risk taking, female odors, and the role of estrogen receptors.