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Abstract
Pregnancy is blocked in a high proportion of recently mated female mice exposed to strange males. This reaction is virtually abolished by the prior removal of the olfactory bulbs of the female. The smell of the strange male appears to be the primary stimulus in the exteroceptive block to pregnancy in mice.Entities:
Keywords: OLFACTORY NERVE/physiology; PREGNANCY/physiology
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Year: 1960 PMID: 13805126 DOI: 10.1126/science.131.3412.1526
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Science ISSN: 0036-8075 Impact factor: 47.728