Relationship between the Central Regulation of Gonadotropins and Mating Behavior in Female Rats

1974 ◽  
pp. 55-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert L. Moss
Keyword(s):  
Mating Behavior ◽  
Female Rats ◽  
Central Regulation

Sexual Behavior is Enhanced by Regular, Repeated Mating from Young Adulthood to Middle Age in Female Long-Evans Rats

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-177
Author(s):  
Fay A. Guarraci ◽  
Chantal M.F. Gonzalez ◽  
Devon Lucero ◽  
Lourdes K. Davis ◽  
Sarah H. Meerts
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Behavior ◽  
Mating Behavior ◽  
Preference Test ◽  
Sexual History ◽  
Female Rats ◽  
Male Rat ◽  
Female Rat ◽  
Repeated Mating ◽  
First Time ◽  
Mating Tests

Background: Aging is associated neuroendocrine changes in women. Animals can be used to model these changes, as well as changes in reproductive behavior. Objective: The current study was designed to characterize mating behavior across age and assess the effects of age and sexual history on mating behavior. Methods: Sexual motivation was assessed using the partner-preference test, in which a female rat is given the choice to interact with a same-sex conspecific or a sexually-vigorous male rat, with which she can mate. Results: Across repeated mating tests (2-12 months of age), female rats spent more time with the male, displayed more solicitation behaviors, were less likely to leave the male after mounts, but visited both stimulus animals less frequently. Comparing a separate group of age-matched, hormoneyoked female rats mated for the first time at 12 months of age to female rats mated for the first time at 2 months of age showed that the 12 month rats visited both stimulus animals less, were less likely to leave the male after mounts, took longer to return to the male after mounts, and displayed fewer solicitation behaviors than their younger counterparts. Relative to middle-aged female rats once they were sexually experienced, 12 month naïve rats spent less time with the male, were more likely to leave the male after mounts, and displayed fewer solicitation behaviors. Furthermore, 12 month naïve rats failed to discriminate between the stimulus animals, visiting both stimulus animals at the same rate unlike 2 month naïve or 12 month experienced rats. Conclusion: Taken together, these results suggest that aging affects some measures of sexual behavior, but most effects of age can be mitigated by regular, repeated mating.

Prepubertal ovariectomy modulates paced mating behavior but not sexual preference or conditioned place preference for mating in female rats

2017 ◽  
Vol 171 ◽  
pp. 142-148 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah H. Meerts ◽  
Kelly S. Anderson ◽  
Molly E. Farry-Thorn ◽  
Elliott G. Johnson ◽  
Lisa Taxier
Keyword(s):  
Mating Behavior ◽  
Conditioned Place Preference ◽  
Place Preference ◽  
Sexual Preference ◽  
Female Rats

Previous sexual experience alters the display of paced mating behavior in female rats

2014 ◽  
Vol 65 (5) ◽  
pp. 497-504 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah H. Meerts ◽  
Rosemary S. Schairer ◽  
Molly E. Farry-Thorn ◽  
Elliott G. Johnson ◽  
Helen K. Strnad
Keyword(s):  
Mating Behavior ◽  
Sexual Experience ◽  
Female Rats

Intracranial infusions of amphetamine into the medial preoptic area but not the nucleus accumbens affect paced mating behavior in female rats

2008 ◽  
Vol 89 (3) ◽  
pp. 253-262 ◽  
Author(s):  
Fay A. Guarraci ◽  
Russell J. Frohardt ◽  
Debra Hines ◽  
Erica Navaira ◽  
Julie Smith ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Nucleus Accumbens ◽  
Mating Behavior ◽  
Preoptic Area ◽  
Medial Preoptic Area ◽  
Female Rats

scholarly journals Increasing 3α,5α-THP following inhibition of neurosteroid biosynthesis in the ventral tegmental area reinstates anti-anxiety, social, and sexual behavior of naturally receptive rats

Reproduction ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 137 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-128 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cheryl A Frye ◽  
Jason J Paris ◽  
Madeline E Rhodes
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Behavior ◽  
Social Interaction ◽  
Ventral Tegmental Area ◽  
Mating Behavior ◽  
Elevated Plus Maze ◽  
Female Rats ◽  
Plus Maze ◽  
Ventral Tegmental ◽  
Behavior Inhibition ◽  
Progesterone Metabolite

The progesterone metabolite and neurosteroid, 5α-pregnan-3α-ol-20-one (3α,5α-THP), has actions in the midbrain ventral tegmental area (VTA) to modulate lordosis, but its effects on other reproductively relevant behaviors are not well understood. Effects on exploration, anxiety, and social behavior resulting from inhibition of 3α,5α-THP formation, as well as 3α,5α-THP enhancement, were investigated in the midbrain VTA. Naturally sexually receptive, female rats (n=8–10/group) received infusions aimed at the midbrain VTA of vehicle, PK11195 (an inhibitor of neurosteroidogenesis), and/or indomethacin (an inhibitor of 3α,5α-THP formation from prohormones), and were subsequently infused with vehicle or FGIN 1-27 (a neurosteroidogenesis enhancer). The rats were then assessed in a behavioral battery that examined exploration (open field), anxiety (elevated plus maze), social (social interaction), and sexual (paced mating) behavior. Inhibition of 3α,5α-THP formation decreased exploratory, anti-anxiety, social, and sexual behavior, as well as midbrain 3α,5α-THP levels. Infusions of FGIN 1-27 following 3α,5α-THP inhibition restored these behaviors and midbrain 3α,5α-THP levels to those commensurate with control rats that had not been administered inhibitors. These findings suggest that 3α,5α-THP formation in the midbrain VTA may influence appetitive, as well as consummatory, aspects of mating behavior.

The effect of LHRH antagonist analogs and an antibody to LHRH on mating behavior in female rats

Peptides ◽  
1981 ◽  
Vol 2 (4) ◽  
pp. 393-396 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol A. Dudley ◽  
Wylie Vale ◽  
Jean Rivier ◽  
Robert L. Moss
Keyword(s):  
Mating Behavior ◽  
Female Rats ◽  
Lhrh Antagonist
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