PSYC 211 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Fallopian Tube, Vomeronasal Organ, Preoptic Area
11 Mar 2013
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A castrated male rat will cease sexual activity which can be reinstated with a injection of testosterone. Sexual behaviour in female rats depends on estradiol and progesterone released by ovaries. Ovariectomised rats are not sexually receptive but it can be produced by administering estradiol followed by progesterone. Hormonal control of sexual behaviour in laboratory animals: sexual behaviour in male rats depends on testosterone released by testes. Sexual behaviour in female laboratory animals: a castrated male rat will cease sexual activity which can be reinstated with an injection of. Although a passive participant, she is active in initiating copulation; she may entice him by sniffing and nuzzling the males genitals and. Male rats are most responsive to a female rat on heat. ". Whitten, vandenbergh and bruce effects: neurons of the vomeronasal system respond only when a mouse actively investigates the mouth of anogenital region or another mouse.
