ArticleTranslational psychiatry2023
An appetite for aggressive behavior? Female rats, too, derive reward from winning aggressive interactions.
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- Juvenile social isolation in Sprague Dawley rats does not have a lasting impact on social behavior in adulthood.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Zoographics in the Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior: Increasing inclusion of female animals.Journal of the experimental analysis of behavior · 2024Article
- Trace amine-associated receptor 1 agonist reduces aggression in brain serotonin-deficient tryptophan hydroxylase 2 knockout rats.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
- Deep learning algorithms reveal increased social activity in rats at the onset of the dark phase of the light/dark cycle.PloS one · 2024Article
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Abstract
While aggression is an adaptive behavior mostly triggered by competition for resources, it can also in and of itself be rewarding. Based on the common notion that female rats are not aggressive, much of aggression research has been centered around males, leading to a gap in the understanding of the female aggression neurobiology. Therefore, we asked whether intact virgin female rats experience reward from an aggressive interaction and assessed aggression seeking behavior in rats of both sexes. To validate the involvement of reward signaling, we measured mesolimbic dopamine turnover and determined the necessity of dopamine signaling for expression of aggression-seeking. Together our data indicate that female rats exhibit aggressive behavior outside of maternal context, experience winning aggressive behaviors as rewarding, and do so to a similar extent as male rats and in a dopamine-dependent manner.
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