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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Feb 26.
Published in final edited form as: Stress. 2001;4(4):305–318. doi: 10.3109/10253890109014754

TABLE II.

Assessment of sensitivity to pain threshold. Chronically stressed rats regardless of whether they were injected with vehicle or metyrapone showed a tendency for greater sensitivity to footshock, as assessed by flinch, compared to controls (main effect of Treatment, F(1, 28) = 3.87, p = 0.06). In contrast, no significant effect for jump was revealed. Data are represented by means±S.E.M. and values represent mA

Flinch Jump
Control+vehicle 0.048±0.005* 0.072±0.003
Control+metyrapone 0.046±0.002* 0.076±0.001
Stress+vehicle 0.042±0.004 0.067±0.005
Stress+metyrapone 0.039±0.003 0.069±0.004
*

p = 0.06, controls (vehicle+metyrapone) compared to stressed rats (vehicle+metyrapone). Subjects/group=8.