Attraction to sexual pheromones and associated odorants in female mice involves activation of the reward system and basolateral amygdala
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Adult female mice are innately attracted to non‐volatile pheromones contained in male‐soiled bedding. In contrast, male‐derived volatiles become attractive if associated with non‐volatile attractive pheromones, which act as unconditioned stimulus in a case of Pavlovian associative learning. In this work, we study the chemoinvestigatory behaviour of female mice towards volatile and non‐volatile chemicals contained in male‐soiled bedding, in combination with the analysis of c‐fos expression…
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