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SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA--Paris Hilton: Actress, author, ... analgesic? Neuroscientists have found that a cardboard cutout of the ubiquitous Hilton Hotel heiress has a painkilling effect on mice. But don't expect clinical trials to begin anytime soon: Paris works only for males, and it may be only because she stresses them out.
The idea for the unconventional experiment arose when Jeffrey Mogil of McGill University in Montreal, Canada, and his colleagues noticed that male mice spent less time licking the site of a painful injection--indicating that they had less pain--when a scientist was present. ...
Male mice spent less time licking their wounds when fake Paris was in sight, but females showed no such effect, the researchers reported here Saturday at the annual meeting of the Society for Neuroscience. ... Mogil suspects the analgesic effect has something to do with stress. (If a predator lurks nearby, taking time to lick your wounds may not be the best idea.) ... Mice probably see humans as potential predators, Mogil says, and for some reason, males stress out about it more than females do.
...the effect of a Paris Hilton video on male mice has yet to be studied.
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2007/1105/1?rss=1
on your comment, BEB.
