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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: MrAngryFace on August 06, 2007, 06:56:54 PM

Title: More than I wanted to know about mice.
Post by: MrAngryFace on August 06, 2007, 06:56:54 PM

Thanks msnbc.com. Direct Quote:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20149574/

Quote

Sensory organ holds key to hot mouse sex
Females get as randy as males when vomeronasal function

WASHINGTON - Female mice became sexually voracious and tried to mate like males after scientists disabled a small sensory organ, casting fresh light on how gender-specific behavior develops in animals.

The difference seems to lie in how male and female mice use the vomeronasal organ to process pheromones, said Catherine Dulac, the Harvard biologist who led the research published in the journal Nature on Sunday.

Pheromones are chemical signals that many animals, including humans, use to communicate socially and sexually. The vomeronasal organ, found in the noses of some animals but not in people or higher primates, is a key processing center for pheromones.

Title: Re: More than I wanted to know about mice.
Post by: Madrun Badrun on August 06, 2007, 07:00:31 PM

so when can we disabled this small sensory organ in human women? 

Title: Re: More than I wanted to know about mice.
Post by: hyp on August 06, 2007, 07:47:36 PM

a nice glass of wine tends to do the trick.