Gender effects and sexual-orientation impact on androstadienone-evoked behavior and neural processing

In humans, the most established and investigated substance acting as a chemosignal, i.e., a substance that is excreted from the body, is 4,16-androstadien-3-one (AND). AND, which is found in sweat and saliva, is known to be responsible for influencing several variables, such as psychophysiological s...

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Autores principales: Krajnik, Jacqueline, Kollndorfer, Kathrin, Nenning, Karl-Heinz, Lundström, Johan N., Schöpf, Veronika
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014
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Endocrinology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4116783/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25132813
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2014.00195
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author Krajnik, Jacqueline
Kollndorfer, Kathrin
Nenning, Karl-Heinz
Lundström, Johan N.
Schöpf, Veronika
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description In humans, the most established and investigated substance acting as a chemosignal, i.e., a substance that is excreted from the body, is 4,16-androstadien-3-one (AND). AND, which is found in sweat and saliva, is known to be responsible for influencing several variables, such as psychophysiological status, behavior, as well as cortical processing. The aim of the present review is to give insight into the variety of AND effects, with special regard to specific cross-sexual characteristics of this putative human chemosignal, emphasizing the neural activation patterns and factors such as contextual conditions. This review highlights the importance of including those contributing factors into the analysis of behavioral as well as brain-related studies.
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spelling pubmed-41167832014-08-15 Gender effects and sexual-orientation impact on androstadienone-evoked behavior and neural processing Krajnik, Jacqueline Kollndorfer, Kathrin Nenning, Karl-Heinz Lundström, Johan N. Schöpf, Veronika Front Neurosci Endocrinology In humans, the most established and investigated substance acting as a chemosignal, i.e., a substance that is excreted from the body, is 4,16-androstadien-3-one (AND). AND, which is found in sweat and saliva, is known to be responsible for influencing several variables, such as psychophysiological status, behavior, as well as cortical processing. The aim of the present review is to give insight into the variety of AND effects, with special regard to specific cross-sexual characteristics of this putative human chemosignal, emphasizing the neural activation patterns and factors such as contextual conditions. This review highlights the importance of including those contributing factors into the analysis of behavioral as well as brain-related studies. Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-07-31 /pmc/articles/PMC4116783/ /pubmed/25132813 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2014.00195 Text en Copyright © 2014 Krajnik, Kollndorfer, Nenning, Lundström and Schöpf. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
spellingShingle Endocrinology
Krajnik, Jacqueline
Kollndorfer, Kathrin
Nenning, Karl-Heinz
Lundström, Johan N.
Schöpf, Veronika
Gender effects and sexual-orientation impact on androstadienone-evoked behavior and neural processing
title Gender effects and sexual-orientation impact on androstadienone-evoked behavior and neural processing
title_full Gender effects and sexual-orientation impact on androstadienone-evoked behavior and neural processing
title_fullStr Gender effects and sexual-orientation impact on androstadienone-evoked behavior and neural processing
title_full_unstemmed Gender effects and sexual-orientation impact on androstadienone-evoked behavior and neural processing
title_short Gender effects and sexual-orientation impact on androstadienone-evoked behavior and neural processing
title_sort gender effects and sexual-orientation impact on androstadienone-evoked behavior and neural processing
topic Endocrinology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4116783/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25132813
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnins.2014.00195
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