{"id":31061,"date":"2016-10-15T11:05:32","date_gmt":"2016-10-15T18:05:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/a-possible-explanation-for-why-male-mice-tolerate-stress-better-than-females"},"modified":"2017-06-04T14:09:15","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T21:09:15","slug":"a-possible-explanation-for-why-male-mice-tolerate-stress-better-than-females","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/a-possible-explanation-for-why-male-mice-tolerate-stress-better-than-females","title":{"rendered":"A possible explanation for why male mice tolerate stress better than females"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-possible-explanation-for-why-male-mice-tolerate-stress-better-than-females.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The nerves we feel before a stressful event\u2014like speaking in public, for example\u2014are normally kept in check by a complex system of circuits in our brain. Now, scientists at Rockefeller University have identified a key molecule within this circuitry that is responsible for relieving anxiety. Intriguingly, it doesn\u2019t appear to reduce anxiety in female mice, only in males.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is unusual, because the particular cell type involved here is the same in the male and female brain\u2014same in number, same in appearance,\u201d says <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rockefeller.edu\/research\/faculty\/labheads\/NathanielHeintz\/#content\" target=\"_blank\">Nathaniel Heintz<\/a>, head of the <a href=\"http:\/\/lab.rockefeller.edu\/heintz\/\" target=\"_blank\">Laboratory of Molecular Biology<\/a> and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator. \u201cIt\u2019s a rare case where a single cell type is activated by the same stimulus but yields two different behaviors in each gender.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.technology.org\/2016\/10\/14\/possible-explanation-male-mice-tolerate-stress-better-females\/\">http:\/\/www.technology.org\/2016\/10\/14\/possible-explanation-ma...r-females\/<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nerves we feel before a stressful event\u2014like speaking in public, for example\u2014are normally kept in check by a complex system of circuits in our brain. Now, scientists at Rockefeller University have identified a key molecule within this circuitry that is responsible for relieving anxiety. Intriguingly, it doesn\u2019t appear to reduce anxiety in female mice, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31061"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31061\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65998,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31061\/revisions\/65998"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}