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Sex differences in stress-induced social withdrawal: independence from adult gonadal hormones and inhibition of female phenotype by corncob bedding.
Hormones and behavior - 1 Mar 2013
Trainor Brian C, Takahashi Elizabeth Y, Campi Katharine L, Florez Stefani A, Greenberg Gian D, Laman-Maharg Abigail, Laredo Sarah A, Orr Veronica N, Silva Andrea L, Steinman Michael Q
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There is compelling evidence for important sex differences in behavioral and hormonal responses to psychosocial stress. Here we examined the effects of gonadal hormones on behavioral responses to social defeat stress in monogamous California mice (Peromyscus californicus). Three episodes of social defeat induced social withdrawal in intact females but not males. Gonadectomy blocked corticosterone responses to...
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