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Nose Jobs Turn Female Mice Into Sex Machines
Live Science via Fox News ^
| Tuesday, August 14, 2007
| By Charles Q. Choi
Posted on 08/14/2007 4:47:39 AM PDT by mmanager
Female mice apparently become as randy as males after their senses of smell are tampered with, ending up aggressively trying to mount any mouse that moves, research now reveals.
These findings open the question as to whether circuits for male behavior exist in a dormant state in females, and vice versa, in other species — including in humans.
In many animals, the vomeronasal organ often helps detect scents.
In mice, it especially helps detect pheromones, molecules used to attract the opposite sex and to communicate other signals linked with social behavior, such as parenting or aggression
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Sorry, I just had to post this. Have at it.
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posted on
08/14/2007 4:47:43 AM PDT
by
mmanager
To: mmanager
This might explain that one girl I knew in college.
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posted on
08/14/2007 4:50:25 AM PDT
by
Farmer Dean
(If there's lead in the air,there's hope..)
To: mmanager
senses of smell are tampered with, ending up aggressively trying to mount any mouse
This is great news, now if they will find something to make other “organs” function with greater verossity????
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posted on
08/14/2007 4:55:01 AM PDT
by
buck61
To: mmanager
"After they knocked out this gene in specially bred mice,... Wait a minute now! How do you breed mice in a special way? Inquiring minds want to know.
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posted on
08/14/2007 4:55:11 AM PDT
by
DJ Taylor
(Once again our country is at war, and once again the Democrats have sided with our enemy.)
To: DJ Taylor
“How do you breed mice in a special way?”
Trap position.
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posted on
08/14/2007 4:56:42 AM PDT
by
mmanager
(Fred instead of Purebred, Crossbred and the Hothead)
To: DJ Taylor
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posted on
08/14/2007 4:56:53 AM PDT
by
2111USMC
To: Farmer Dean
As to whether or not this applies to humans, especially since humans lack vomeronasal organs, "my guess is as good as yours," Dulac told LiveScienceSince humans don't have the vomeronasal organs (neither do higher primates)...probably doesn't explain it, LOL.
However, I'm amazed at this article because even though they state early on that humans don't have this same "organ"...they end the article with this.
These findings might open up new avenues for investigation into the brain origins of sex-specific human behavior.
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posted on
08/14/2007 4:57:13 AM PDT
by
dawn53
To: mmanager; Jersey Republican Biker Chick
Right now lots of guys are talking their wives/girlfriends out of boob jobs in favor of nose jobs.
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posted on
08/14/2007 4:57:31 AM PDT
by
Larry Lucido
(Hunter 2008)
To: Larry Lucido
“Right now lots of guys are talking their wives/girlfriends out of boob jobs in favor of nose jobs.”
How would one convince his wife if she has a perfectly good nose and boobs to get this nose job?
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posted on
08/14/2007 5:01:03 AM PDT
by
mmanager
(Fred instead of Purebred, Crossbred and the Hothead)
To: mmanager
The females are trying to mount the males? They may have stumbled on to something entirely different than sex drive.
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posted on
08/14/2007 5:02:18 AM PDT
by
Raycpa
To: mmanager
Fellas, I'm ready to get up and do my thing (yeah go ahead!)
I wanta get into it, man, you know (go ahead!)
Like a, like a sex machine, man, (yeah go ahead!)
Movin' and doin' it, you know
Can I count it off? (Go ahead)
One, two, three, four!
Get up, (get on up)
Get up, (get on up)
Stay on the scene, (get on up),
like a sex machine, (get on up)
HEY!
-James Brown (still touring the south, in search of a final resting place)
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posted on
08/14/2007 5:03:49 AM PDT
by
theDentist
(Qwerty ergo typo : I type, therefore I misspelll.)
To: Raycpa
“The females are trying to mount the males? They may have stumbled on to something entirely different than sex drive.”
Agressive like it on Top “SMice Girls”
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posted on
08/14/2007 5:06:36 AM PDT
by
mmanager
(Fred instead of Purebred, Crossbred and the Hothead)
To: mmanager
In my mind, I’m seeing Minnie Mouse, singing, “I’m just a love machine, and I dont work for nobody but you....”
What an image for a Tuesday morning!!!
To: mmanager
Ask the Mayor. I guess in his case his sense of smell is hyper.
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posted on
08/14/2007 5:10:43 AM PDT
by
Leisler
(Just be glad you're not getting all the Government you pay for.)
To: dawn53
Since humans don't have the vomeronasal organs (neither do higher primates)...probably doesn't explain it, LOL. I'm pretty sure that's incorrect. There was considerable research being conducted a few years back on the human vomeronasal organ.
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posted on
08/14/2007 5:12:23 AM PDT
by
Oberon
(What does it take to make government shrink?)
To: mmanager
as randy as males ..., ending up aggressively trying to mount any mouse that moves Sorry, if they were as randy as males, if it didn't move, they'd shake it and "mount" it.
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posted on
08/14/2007 5:12:54 AM PDT
by
Lonesome in Massachussets
(NYT Headline: Protocols of the Learned Elders of CBS: Fake but Accurate, Experts Say)
To: Leisler
That Big Sh*tty pol is sniffing out the location of the “Bat faced Girl” and has an alley already in mind.
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posted on
08/14/2007 5:15:16 AM PDT
by
GladesGuru
(In a society predicated upon freedom, it is essential to examine principle)
To: Oberon
The organ is found in the noses of practically all land vertebrates, except humans and other higher primates.I just got my info from the article.
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posted on
08/14/2007 5:16:26 AM PDT
by
dawn53
To: theDentist
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posted on
08/14/2007 5:17:46 AM PDT
by
70times7
(Sense... some don't make any, some don't have any - or so the former would appear to the latter.)
To: Oberon; dawn53
In humans the vomeronasal organ is probably less any discrete identifiable blob of tissue, like a liver or kidney, than a tract of organized neurons. Such pathways are a little harder to nail down anatomically and physiologically.
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posted on
08/14/2007 5:19:46 AM PDT
by
Fairview
( Everybody is somebody else's weirdo.)
To: mmanager
Not that Anna needs one. But if she were a raving sex machine I would join the pro tennis circuit tomorrow
To: mmanager
Does this explain Hillary or Bill Clinton?
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posted on
08/14/2007 5:26:27 AM PDT
by
Raycpa
To: mmanager
“Nose Jobs Turn Female Mice Into Sex Machines”
It also seems to work for Hollywood Starlets.
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posted on
08/14/2007 5:28:04 AM PDT
by
Hacklehead
(Liberals, replacing what works with what doesn't since 1940.)
To: TheRedSoxWinThePennant
My resistance... is ...weakening.
No...no...must look...away............ohhhhhhhh...
Ok....Mount me!
Awwwwww!
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posted on
08/14/2007 5:32:15 AM PDT
by
Stallone
(Free Republic - The largest collection of volunteer Freedom Fighters the world has ever known)
To: Stallone
How can you have a sex machine thread without a gratuitous pic of Anna.
To: mmanager
And this ‘study’ was likely paid for with our tax dollars
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posted on
08/14/2007 5:44:41 AM PDT
by
SueRae
To: mmanager
Good news for those who have an inclination to ‘hump’ mice.
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posted on
08/14/2007 5:48:05 AM PDT
by
verity
(Muhammed and Harry Reid are Dirt Bags)
To: Larry Lucido
How did it go?
Convince anyone?
To: mmanager
Female mice apparently become as randy as males after their senses of smell are tampered with, ending up aggressively trying to mount any mouse that moves, research now reveals.
Explains a lot...
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posted on
08/14/2007 8:06:43 AM PDT
by
BlueMondaySkipper
(The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it. - George Orwell)
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