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| ask dmitri wtf at slide 2 |
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| ask dmitri wtf at slide 2 |
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| What is the sex difference in pigs with regard to the pheromone androstenone? |
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What is the sex difference in pigs with regard to the pheromone androstenone?
female pigs are 5x more sensitive to it than males |
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| Sex difference in light/dark cycle entrainment in Octodon degus? |
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Sex difference in light/dark cycle entrainment in Octodon degus?
females can entrain a new light/dark cycle in response to photoperiod-dependent changes in another female degu's smell
(males can't)
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What effect can the scent of male urine have in mice?
Scent of estrus female's urine in rodents?
What is the explanation for these phenomenon?
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What effect can the scent of male urine have in mice?
Scent of estrus female's urine in rodents?
What is the explanation for these phenomenon?
- can affect the female induction or suppression of estrus, accelerate puberty or block pregnancy
- can induce sexual behaviors in males
- detected by sexually dimorphic vomeronasal system
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| In humans, which sex is better at odor detection and identification? When does this difference begin? What does it depend on? What odor is the better sex 1000 times more sensitive to? What region shows greater activity to olfactory stimuli on an fMRI? |
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In humans, which sex is better at odor detection and identification? When does this difference begin? What does it depend on? What odor is the better sex 1000 times more sensitive to? What region shows greater activity to olfactory stimuli on an fMRI?
- women are better: begins at puberty & is estrogen-dependent
- 1000 times more sensitive to musk-like odors
- frontal regions
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| When are women even more sensitive to olfactory stimuli than normal (ie relative to other women) and why? When are they less sensitive relative to other women? |
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When are women even more sensitive to olfactory stimuli than normal (ie relative to other women) and why? When are they less sensitiverelative to other women?
- when they are periovulatory and when in early pregnancy, bcz E levels are increased
- when menstruating and when in late pregnancy |
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| What is the sexual dimorphism for taste in rats? What does its establishment depend on? What role do those hormones play after establishment? |
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What is the sexual dimorphism for taste in rats? What does its establishment depend on? What role do those hormones play after establishment?
- female rats have greater preference for sweet tastes.
- depends on simultaneous presence of estradiol and progesterone
- dimorphism exists even w/o E and P once established |
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| How is taste aversion learning facilitated in female rats? |
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How is taste aversion learning facilitated in female rats?
by estradiol
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| Which sex is better at taste discrimination in humans? When does difference arise? When is it exacerbated? When does it diminish? |
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Which sex is better at taste discrimination in humans? When does difference arise? When is it exacerbated? When does it diminish?
- women better starting at puberty
- exacerbated during early pregnancy,
diminished after menopause
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| How do women rate sweet tastes compared to men? During which phase do they tend to eat more (sweets, presumably), compared to which other phase? Why? |
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How do women rate sweet tastes compared to men? During which phase do they tend to eat more (sweets, presumably), compared to which other phase? Why?
- more intense
- luteal phase compared to follicular phase
- bcz E and P are high |
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What is dimorphism for vision in humans?
What happens to females exposed to DHT at birth?
Females exposed to estrogen at birth? |
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What is dimorphism for vision in humans?
What happens to females exposed to DHT at birth?
Females exposed to estrogen at birth?
- males have about 20% more neurons in primary visual cortex
- they show the male pattern of developmental cell death --> more neurons in visual cortex
- they show the female pattern |
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