The nipple odor of lactating mice (Mus musculus) plays a crucial role in attracting newborn pups and motivating them to suck milk. The characteristic odor of a lactating murine nipple is assumed to be a mixture of multiple odorous substrates, that is, milk, dam's and pups' saliva, skin glands' secretions, and amniotic fluid. The present study...
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March 2021 (v1)Journal articleUploaded on: December 4, 2022
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October 1, 2019 (v1)Journal article
Murine milk conveys an odor factor that is both attractive and appetitive to conspecific newborns. Up to now, little is known about the temporal dynamic of this odor factor and about the stability of its behavioral activity after milk ejection. We aim to characterize the conditions in which the attractive and appetitive potency of milk to...
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2021 (v1)Journal article
OBJECTIVES: Colostrum is the initial milk secretion which ingestion by neonates warrants their adaptive start in life. Colostrum is accordingly expected to be attractive to newborns. The present study aims to assess whether colostrum is olfactorily attractive for 2-day-old newborns when presented against mature milk or a control. METHODS: The...
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