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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Behav Pharmacol. 2010 Dec;21(8):736–744. doi: 10.1097/FBP.0b013e32833fa79d

Table 1.

Outline of experimental design detailing tests conducted before, during and after chronic pregnanolone treatment.

Treatment dose
(mg/kg/day)
Week of treatment Test
Before 0 -- Pregnanolone time course
0 -- Dose-effect curves for all drugs
During 5.6 1, 2 Pregnanolone and flunitrazepam dose-effect curvesa
11.2 3-6 Pregnanolone and flunitrazepam dose-effect curvesa
11.2 7 Ketamine dose-effect curves
16.8 8, 9 Pregnanolone and flunitrazepam dose-effect curvesa
25.6 10, 11 Pregnanolone and flunitrazepam dose-effect curvesa
25.6 12-20 Dose-effect curves for all drugs
After 0 2 weeks after Pregnanolone and flunitrazepam dose-effect curvesa
0 4 weeks after Dose-effect curves for all drugs
a

Pregnanolone dose-effect curves were determined on the fourth day of each week and flunitrazepam dose-effect curves were determined on the seventh day of each week.