Measuring of the postcopulatory departure in male rats

• Authors: J. Beck
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Spontaneous departure from the female was observed in male rats during testing of instrumental sexual responses. Male rats were tested in an apparatus consisting of two compartments connected by a runway composed of four parallel corridors. The final corridor of the runway and the goal compartment as well as the goal compartment and the start compartment were connected by one-way doors enabling the male to run only in one direction. An incentive female was tethered in the goal compartment. After contact with the female, lasting up to the end of a mount bout, or after exploration of the goal compartment, if the copulatory behaviour was not displayed, the male spontaneously passed to the start compartment and a new run started thereafter. The male thus performed the runs through the apparatus without any intervention from the experimenter.

Keywords

EN

INSTRUMENTAL RESPONSE; MALE RAT; SEXUAL BEHAVIOUR

Discipline

• EXPERIMENTAL_BIOLOGY_&_MEDICINE: EXPERIMENTAL BIOLOGY & MEDICINE

• Publisher: Marceli Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Acta Neurobiologiae Experimentalis
• Year: 1997
• Volume: 57
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 255-258

Contributors

author

J. Beck

• Document Type: technical commu
• Publication order reference: J.Beck, Department of Physiology, Medical Academy of Warsaw, 26/28, Krakowskie Przedmiescie St., 00-927 Warsaw, Poland