LITTER GENDER COMPOSITION AFFECTS MATERNAL-BEHAVIOR OF THE PRIMIPAROUS MOUSE DAM (MUS-MUSCULUS)
LITTER GENDER COMPOSITION AFFECTS MATERNAL-BEHAVIOR OF THE PRIMIPAROUS MOUSE DAM (MUS-MUSCULUS)
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DOI:
10.1037/0735-7036.103.1.83
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发表时间:
1989-03-01
影响因子:
1.4
通讯作者:
LAVIOLA, G
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作者:
ALLEVA, E;CAPRIOLI, A;LAVIOLA, G
Thirty-nine litters of the outbred Swiss CD-1 mouse strain were reduced at birth to 6 pups, according to three conditions MM (all males), MF (3 males and 3 females), or FF (all females). The maternal behavior of their respective dams (frequency and duration of nursing, licking, nestbuilding, and other activities such as eating, drinking, sniffing, grooming, and undirected locomotor activity) were scored during a single 10-min session on Days 2, 3, 5, 7, 10, 14, and 18. Dams rearing MM litters showed higher scores of maternal care on Days 2 and 18 in the case of nursing, on Days 2, 7, and 10 in the case of nest-building, and on Day 18 in the case of licking. These results confirm previous rat data, which indicated that male and female pups are exposed early in infancy to a different pattern of maternal behavior. Concomitant measurements of pup development (body-weight gain and achievement of a number of physiological and neurobehavioral landmarks) indicated that these effects of litter gender composition are not mediated by gross changes in the maturational trends of the pups.(PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)