Ultrasonic Vocalizations in Rat and Mouse Pups
Open Access
- 1 October 2001
- journal article
- unit
- Published by Wiley in Current Protocols in Neuroscience
- Vol. 17 (1), 8.14.1-8.14.16
- https://doi.org/10.1002/0471142301.ns0814s17
Abstract
The ultrasonic vocalization (USV), or isolation calling response, of infant rats and mice has been studied as a measure of the intensity of an aversive affective state and as an early communicative behavior between pup and mother. The four protocols described in this unit are for the basic isolation testing procedure, and for elicitation of the contact quieting response to littermates and/or dam, the potentiation of isolation calling response by a prior brief maternal interaction and the predator-induced suppression of USV by the scent of an unfamiliar male. These procedures for the elicitation of USV, and for its regulation by different kinds of social interaction, provides the basis for experimental research on the early development of emotion and communication in an animal model system.Keywords
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