Modelling sexual violence in male rats: the sexual aggression test (SxAT)

URN to cite this document:: urn:nbn:de:bvb:355-epub-523409
DOI to cite this document:: 10.5283/epub.52340

Oliveira, Vinícius Elias de Moura

; de Jong, Trynke R.

; Neumann, Inga D.

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Abstract

Sexual assault and rape are crimes that impact victims worldwide. Although the psychosocial and eco-evolutionary factors associated with this antisocial behavior have repeatedly been studied, the underlying neurobiological mechanisms are still largely unknown. Here, we established a novel paradigm to provoke and subsequently assess sexual aggression (SxA) in adult male Wistar rats: the sexual ...