Thyroid hormone pattern and aggressiveness in mice blood sampled immediately after fighting
作者:
Danilo Mainardi,
Marisa Mainardi,
Giorgio Valenti,
PierPaolo Vescovi,
期刊:
Bolletino di zoologia
(Taylor Available online 1981)
卷期:
Volume 48,
issue 3-4
页码: 319-322
ISSN:0373-4137
年代: 1981
DOI:10.1080/11250008109439350
出版商: Taylor & Francis Group
数据来源: Taylor
摘要:
Endocrine changes may modulate isolationinduced aggressiveness inMus musculus. Significant differences in the blood levels of T4, T3 and rT3 in males classified as dominant, submissive and reared in isolation have previously been obtained. Isolated mice appear homologous to socially dominant animals as far as aggressiveness is concerned. The endocrinological results support this hypothesis. In that experiment dominant and submissive males, after an open fight, lived together 4 days in a stable hierarchy of two, and were then sacrificed. To find out if levels of peripheral thyroid hormones in dominant and submissive males differ before fighting or depend on living together in a restricted environment of one dominant and one submissive male, the animals in the present experiment were immediately sacrificed after fighting. The results are different from the previous ones, demonstrating that the differences in endocrine functions previously observed are present only when the social hierarchy is stable.
点击下载:
PDF (253KB)
返 回