Life spans in mice from strains selected for high or low aggression

✍ Scribed by S. Béatrice M. Ewalds-Kvist; Ritva-Kajsa Selander

• Book ID: 102656134
• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1996
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 507 KB
• Volume: 22
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0096-140X
• DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1098-2337(1996)22:6<457::aid-ab6>3.0.co;2-e

✦ Synopsis

The present study assessed the life spans in two lines of mice selectively bred for high (TPurku Aggressive, TA) and low (Turku Nonaggressive, TNA) levels of aggression. The maintained parental Swiss albino strain (N), normally distributed with regard to aggression, served as a control line. It was found that the TNA males had a significantly shorter life span than the other lines of mice of both sexes. The relative early death of the TNA males was discussed in terms of male age-related decline of inherited low levels of catecholamine and androgenous hormone concentrations.