The effects of odors from stressed mice on conspecific behavior
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Four experiments correlate conspecific reactions to odors from stressed (foot shocked) BALB/cJ mice with the frequency of specific motor activities and taste avoidance. Where behavior was restricted to forward and backward movement in a tube, animals tended to avoid the side where the odors from stressed animals entered. In a more socially complex home cage (3 recipients) a wide variety of behaviors were affected by odors from stressed conspecifics. Animals were alerted by the odor, searched out the source of the odor and showed increases in general activity, rearing, and air sampling. Many of these behaviors habituated with continuous exposure. The major response to odors from stressed animals was to increase "vigilance." A restriction of behavioral opportunities will lead to odor avoidance; however, when the environment permits, the behavioral reaction to odors becomes more complex. These odors failed to produce conditioned taste aversion, suggesting a sensory specificity in the use of these odors.
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- Authors
- Zalaquett, C., & Thiessen, D.
- Affiliations
- The University of Texas at Austin (US)
- Corresponding author
- Thiessen, Del
- Venue
- Physiology & Behavior
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 1991-07
- Volume
- 50
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 221-227
- ISSN
- 0031-9384 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W1989625644
- Cited by
- 103
- References
- 37
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- FWCI
- 1.45
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Physiology & Behavior (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institutes of Health (5r01mh014076-23)
- National Institute of Mental Health (MH 14076-22)
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Sensory Systems › Olfactory and Sensory Function Studies
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory and Neural Mechanisms
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Behavioral Neuroscience › Stress Responses and Cortisol
- Keywords
- conspecific odor, stress, footshock, BALB/c mice, odor avoidance, sustained attention, rearing behavior, air sampling, conditioned taste aversion, sensory specificity, habituation, motor activity
- MeSH terms
- Animals, Arousal, Avoidance Learning, Chemoreceptor Cells, Conditioning, Classical, Fear, Female, Mice, Inbred BALB C, Pheromones, Smell, Social Environment, Taste, Mice
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