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Rabbit neutering in primary-care education: insights from a surgical clinic [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
Involvement in canine and feline surgical neutering clinics is generally considered to be a key element of primary-care veterinary education, yet opportunities for veterinary students to develop their surgical skills with rabbit patients are uncommon ...
Benato, Livia, Hammond, Jennifer
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The Sexual Motivation of Male Rats as a Tool in Animal Models of Human Health Disorders

open access: yesFrontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2019
Normal or dysfunctional sexual behavior seems to be an important indicator of health or disease. Many health disorders in male patients affect sexual activity by directly causing erectile dysfunction, affecting sexual motivation, or both.
Michal Bialy   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Housing Management of Male Dromedaries during the Rut Season: Effects of Social Contact between Males and Movement Control on Sexual Behavior, Blood Metabolites and Hormonal Balance

open access: yesAnimals, 2020
The current study aimed to evaluate the effect of different housing management systems on behavior, blood metabolites and hormonal balance in male dromedaries during the rutting season. Forty-eight adult male dromedaries were stratified in a two by three
Ramadan D. EL-Shoukary   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cadmium induces testosterone synthesis disorder by testicular cell damage via TLR4/MAPK/NF-κB signaling pathway leading to reduced sexual behavior in piglets

open access: yesEcotoxicology and Environmental Safety, 2022
Cadmium (Cd) is a highly toxic metal pollutant that can endanger the life and health of animals. Toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) can result in testicular cell damage by positively regulating mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK)/nuclear factor-kappaB (NF ...
Yulong Li   +9 more
doaj   +1 more source

Adult-perpetrated Animal Abuse: Development of a Proclivity Scale [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
There is a clear discrepancy in the reporting of animal cruelty complaints, prosecutions and convictions suggesting that any prevalence figures of abuse are significant under-representations.
Chan D.   +6 more
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Casanovas are liars : behavioral syndromes, sperm competition risk, and the evolution of deceptive male mating behavior in live-bearing fishes [version 2; referees: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations] [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Male reproductive biology can by characterized through competition over mates as well as mate choice. Multiple mating and male mate choice copying, especially in internally fertilizing species, set the stage for increased sperm competition, i.e., sperm ...
Bierbach, David   +5 more
core   +2 more sources

Glutamate Afferents From the Medial Prefrontal Cortex Mediate Nucleus Accumbens Activation by Female Sexual Behavior

open access: yesFrontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2019
Low levels of desire and arousal are the primary sexual dysfunctions in women, necessitating neurobiological studies of sexual motivation in female animal models.
Kelsey M. Moore   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

The endogenous cannabinoid system modulates male sexual behavior expression

open access: yesFrontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2023
The endocannabinoid system (ECS) plays a key neuromodulatory role in the brain. Main features of endocannabinoids (eCBs) are that they are produced on demand, in response to enhanced neuronal activity, act as retrograde messengers, and participate in the
Gabriela Rodríguez-Manzo   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Being friendly: paced mating for the study of physiological, behavioral, and neuroplastic changes induced by sexual behavior in females

open access: yesFrontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 2023
Paced mating in rats is an experimental condition that allows the evaluation of sexual behavior in a way that closely resembles what occurs in seminatural and natural conditions enabling the female to control the rate of the sexual interaction.
Elisa Ventura-Aquino   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Phenotyping the males of mouse and rat strains with genetically defined behavioral disturbances in a model of sexual activation

open access: yesВавиловский журнал генетики и селекции, 2015
Sexual behavior is one of the biologically highly relevant types of behavior. Sexual arousal, or an initial stage of sexual behavior, is of particular interest since it triggers all the following events but still remains the least known element of this ...
M. A. Tikhonova, T. G. Amstislavskaya
doaj   +1 more source

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