Sex-specific Stress and Behavioural Responses to Human Experimenters in Rats
Jamshid Faraji, Mirela Ambeskovic, Nevyn Sauter, Jaxson Toly, Kera Whitten, Nayara Antunes Lopes, David Mark Olson, Gerlinde A. S. Metz
This study shows that female rats show increased anxiety and stress responses when exposed to male experimenters, with associated hormonal changes, highlighting the need to standardize experimenter sex reporting in research.
bioRxiv · Dec 1, 2021 · PreprintNeuroscience