Lab Animals Stressed Out by Men, Study Finds – News Watch

Male body odor “induced a robust physiological stress response that results in stress-induced analgesia [pain relief],” according to the study, published April 28 in the journal Nature Methods.

The effect on lab rodents that was produced by the presence of male researchers—and by the presence of their T-shirts after being worn overnight—lasted 30 to 45 minutes, reported a team led by Jeffrey Mogil, head of the Pain Genetics Lab at McGill University in Montreal, Canada.

Mogil said the phenomenon, triggered by a cocktail of male-related pheromones released in sweat, is unlikely to be confined to mice and rats: “I would predict that we will eventually find that this is true in all mammals.”

via newswatch.nationalgeographic.com

Not sure what to do about this, especially in the work place. Perhaps men should be confined to special areas.