Figure 5.

Cardiovascular responses and serum corticosterone on the final day of behavioral testing in Experiment 1. The psychosocial stress group displayed reduce HR (top left), greater systolic BP (top right) and greater diastolic BP (bottom right) than the no psychosocial stress group following 20 min of restraint stress. The psychosocial stress group exhibited marginally reduced baseline levels of corticosterone than the no psychosocial stress group, and both groups demonstrated elevated corticosterone levels following 20 min of acute restraint stress, which is indicated by the dark black line from 30–50 min(bottom left). βp < 0.09; *p < 0.05; **p < 0.001 versus the no psychosocial stress group. Data are group means ± SEM.