Decline in male mouse pheromone with age.
An age-related decline in urinary-borne pheromone was found in male C57BL/6J mice aged from 2 to 30 months. Pheromone activity, estimated by bioassay, declined sharply after about 10 months of age. Two other strains of mice tested (DBA/2J and CBA/HT6J) also appeared to show an age-related decline in pheromone activity. Within each strain, however, pheromone activity was consistently similar to or higher than that of the C57BL/6J male mice. The DBA/2J and BALB/cWt strains appeared to be high pheromone producers, and the C57BL/6J and CBA/HT6J strains, low producers. This report is the first demonstration of a decline with age in male mouse pheromone activity. This decline appears to be synchronized with the well-defined loss of reproductive function in female mice.
D000375:Aging; D000818:Animals; D005260:Female; D008297:Male; D051379:Mice; D008807:Mice, Inbred BALB C / Q000502:physiology*; D010675:Pheromones / Q000652:urine*; D012098:Reproduction; D013045:Species Specificity
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