• openAccess   Avoidance and contextual learning induced by a kairomone, a pheromone and a common odorant in female CD1 mice 

      Fortes Marco, Lluís; Lanuza, Enrique; Martinez-Garcia, Fernando; Agustín-Pavón, Carmen Frontiers Media (2015)
      Chemosignals mediate both intra- and inter-specific communication in most mammals. Pheromones elicit stereotyped reactions in conspecifics, whereas kairomones provoke a reaction in an allospecific animal. For instance, ...
    • closedAccess   Extending the socio-sexual brain: arginine-vasopressin immunoreactive circuits in the telencephalon of mice 

      Otero García, Marcos; Martín Sánchez, Ana; Fortes Marco, Lluís; Martínez-Ricós, Joana; Agustín-Pavón, Carmen; Lanuza, Enrique; Martinez-Garcia, Fernando Springer Berlin Heidelberg (2014-05)
      Quantitative analysis of the immunoreactivity for arginine-vasopressin (AVP-ir) in the telencephalon of male (intact and castrated) and female CD1 mice allows us to precisely locate two sexually dimorphic (more abundant ...
    • closedAccess   Of Pheromones and Kairomones: What Receptors Mediate Innate Emotional Responses? 

      Fortes Marco, Lluís; Lanuza, Enrique; Martinez-Garcia, Fernando Wiley (2013-09)
      Some chemicals elicit innate emotionally laden behavioral responses. Pheromones mediate sexual attraction, parental care or agonistic confrontation, whereas predators' kairomones elicit defensive behaviors in their preys. ...
    • openAccess   Sex pheromones are not always attractive: changes induced by learning and illness in mice 

      Lanuza, Enrique; Martín Sánchez, Ana; Marco Monclús, Pau; Cádiz-Moretti, Bernardita; Fortes Marco, Lluís; Hernández Martínez, Adoración; McLean, Lynn; Beynon, Robert J.; Hurst, Jane L.; Martinez-Garcia, Fernando Elsevier (2014-11)
      A male-specific major urinary protein named darcin is attractive to female mice, Mus musculus, stimulates a learned attraction to volatile components of a male's urinary odour and induces spatial learning. In this article ...