There's no place like home: Cage odours and place preference in subordinate CD-1 male mice

There's no place like home: cage odours and place preference in subordinate CD-1 male mice.

Prior studies using mice have shown that scent marks are an important source of information and can cause behavioural changes in other individuals. Studies have also shown that scent marks in the environment can affect the outcome of social interactions between mice. We used conditioned place preference tests to investigate whether CD-1 male mice (Mus musculus) are reinforced by olfactory cues ...

No place like HOME.

Chimpanzee Behavior: There's No Place like Home

During times of crisis, humans often seek the comforts of home. New observations indicate that, during periods of food shortage, male chimpanzees behave in similar fashion by returning to the areas they occupied with their mothers in youth.

The role of nitric oxide in conditioned place preference induced by morphine in male mice

  The involvement of nitric oxide (NO) in the reinforcing properties of opioids was studied by examining the effect of a NO precursor (L-arginine) and NO synthase inhibitor (L-nitro-amino-methyl-ester, L-NAME) on the conditioned place preference (CPP) induced by morphine. The experiment was performed on male albino Swiss- White mice (25 ± 5 g). L-arginine in doses of 100, 200 and 500 mg/kg (i.p...

No place like home: older adults and their housing.

OBJECTIVES The home is both older Americans' largest asset and their largest consumption good. This article employs new data on the consumption and assets of older Americans to investigate what role the home plays in the economic lives of older adults. METHODS We used 20 years of data from the Consumer Expenditure Survey to examine the asset and consumption trends of four cohorts of older Ame...