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2013, Hormones and BehaviorCitation Excerpt :If direct contact is allowed, damage to either system can decrease attraction to vaginal secretion in sexually inexperienced male Syrian hamsters (Pfeiffer and Johnston, 1994; Powers et al., 1979) and mice (Pankevich et al., 2004) but not in sexually experienced Syrian hamsters (O'Connell and Meredith, 1984). Similarly, VNO removal in sexually inexperienced guinea pigs leads to rapid extinction of urine investigative behavior (Beauchamp et al., 1982). More centrally, lesions of either the MAa or MApd, but not PMCo (Maras and Petrulis, 2008b) eliminated preferential investigation of female odors in sexually-naïve male Syrian hamsters, albeit in different ways (Maras and Petrulis, 2006).
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