Researchers investigated the neural mechanisms underlying the behavioral transition from the sexually receptive estrus stage to the non-receptive phase, as part of the hormone-dependent behavioral ...

Hormone levels fluctuate like the tides, ebbing and flowing according to carefully orchestrated cycles. These hormones not only influence the body, but can cross into the brain and shape the behavior ...

In breast cancer, neoadjuvant chemotherapy reduces the tumor before surgery. However, the response to this treatment does not depend solely on the subtype of malignancies. Other factors could play a ...

Estrous cycles and certain disease processes can affect mares' reproductive hormones; fortunately, veterinarians have ways to quell resulting behaviors. Many owners stand by the statement that there's ...

There’s no question that hormones affect the brain—and if they affect the brain, that means they can affect behavior, too. That logic has long justified leaving female mice out of neuroscience studies ...

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A new study shows how high estrogen release during the estrus cycle increases the pleasure felt via the brain’s reward pathway. Hormonal fluctuations women undergo make them particularly sensitive, ...

In 2016, Colinda Scheele, a cancer biologist at Catholic University Leuven, was studying how chemotherapy affects breast cancer cells in mice. However, she observed an inconsistency: Some cell ...

Female animals have a particular period when they willingly allow mating with the males. This period is known as the heat or estrus period. But what is Estrus or Heat? It is a recurring period when a ...