Nat Neurosci is more popular with women! Experimental mice "favor" for women and "dislike" for men will directly affect the effect of the drug

When a female biologist conducted a mouse experiment, she found a surprising phenomenon: the male colleague made the experiment, but the other female colleagues could not do anything

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Further studies found that the sex of the experimenters modulated mouse behavior and neural response

Difficulty replicating experimental results between or within laboratories may be due to unrecognized experimental variables

However, there is evidence that rodents' ability to distinguish between the sexes of human experimenters can have a measurable effect on

In the study, the researchers first assessed whether CD1, BALB/c, or C57BL/6J mice preferred to interact with cotton swabs that had wiped the skin of human males (elbow sockets, inner wrists, and mastoids) compared to human females

This preference may be odor-driven, as it is not observed in mice that result in loss of smell caused by intranasal treatment with zinc sulfate (Figure 1b