The Mammalian Vomeronasal System: Its Role in Learning and Social Behaviors
The Mammalian Vomeronasal System: Its Role in Learning and Social Behaviors
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10.1007/978-1-4613-2235-1_36
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1986
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C. Wysocki;N. Jay Bean;Gary K. Beauchamp
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作者：
C. Wysocki;N. Jay Bean;Gary K. Beauchamp
在过去的几年里，我们已经进行了行为工作与小鼠和豚鼠，以确定哺乳动物犁鼻系统的功能。本章将回顾我们正在进行的一些研究的状态，总结实验结果，旨在确定犁鼻系统的作用，在化学感觉调查的雌性豚鼠尿液的雄性豚鼠，雄性小鼠的生殖行为，小鼠之间的侵略，和化学感觉诱发的超声波发声小鼠。我们将表明犁鼻系统似乎是维持某些行为的关键，在它的情况下，化学感觉介导的反应减少或熄灭。因此，我们认为，犁鼻系统的刺激本身就是奖励。我们还将证明，deafferentation的犁鼻系统deletatally或之前的经验是更有害的动物比deafferentation后的经验，并提出的重要性，检测到的刺激的化学感觉系统以外的犁鼻系统，最有可能的嗅觉，是在社会交往中学习。这些习得的线索可以在犁鼻系统功能缺失的情况下引发行为。
Over the past several years, we have conducted behavioral work with mice and guinea pigs to define the functions of the mammalian vomeronasal system. This chapter will review the status of some of our ongoing research by summarizing the results of experiments designed to determine the role of the vomeronasal system in chemosensory investigation of female guinea pig urine by male guinea pigs, male mouse reproductive behavior, aggression among mice, and chemosensory-evoked ultrasonic vocalizations in mice. We will show that the vomeronasal system appears to be critical for maintaining certain behaviors; in its absence, chemosensory-mediated responses diminish or extinguish. Hence, we suggest that stimulation of the vomeronasal system is itself inherently rewarding. We will also demonstrate that deafferentation of the vomeronasal system neonatally or prior to experience is more detrimental to an animal than deafferentation subsequent to experience and will propose that the importance of stimuli detected by chemosensory systems other than the vomeronasal system, most likely olfaction, is learned during social encounters. These learned cues can later elicit behaviors in the absence of a functional vomeronasal system.