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Published in final edited form as: Physiol Behav. 2012 Apr 4;106(4):562–568. doi: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2012.03.031

Table 4.

Food and water intake in ferrets

		Observation chamber		Home cages
		Food (g)	Water (ml)	Food (% baseline)		Water (% baseline)
Study 1	n			24 h	48 h	24 h	48 h
Exp. 1

Control	8	7.5 (± 2.8)	17.8 (± 4.3)	87.2 (± 9.9)	105.5 (± 8.8)	94.6 (± 6.1)	89.0 (± 2.8)
2% Isoflurane (2 h)	8	5.2 (± 2.5)	9.0 (± 1.7	102.9 (± 9.9)	107.4 (± 11.0)	100.7 (± 7.4)	106.7 (± 8.0)
2% Isoflurane (6 h)	8	6.8 (± 2.8)	13.0 (± 5.1)	84.4 (± 10.2)	74.4 (± 6.3	94.5 (± 5.6)	84.6 (± 5.3

Exp. 2

Saline	6	3.6 (± 1.6)	12.1 (± 2.1)	106.2 (± 10.8)	93.9 (± 11.2)	102.5 (± 4.4)	116.0 (± 11.0)
0.1 mg/kg Morphine	6	0.5 (± 0.3)	14.1 (± 3.4)	106.3 (± 12.1)	93.3 (± 13.5)	97.8 (± 9.8	91.4 (± 9.5
0.3 mg/kg Morphine	6	5.1 (± 1.3)	5.8 (± 1.5)	107.6 (± 7.6)	111.5 (± 12.0)	94.5 (± 6.5)	86.2 (± 7.6
0.9 mg/kg Morphine	5	0.5 (± 0.1)	4.1 (± 1.2)^*	118.6 (± 10.0)	97.9 (± 4.2)	102.4 (± 10.7)	80.3 (± 15.6)

Exp. 3

Control/Saline	5	8.8 (± 2.3)	17.6 (± 7.0)	93.5 (± 7.5)	138.4 (± 25.1)	78.1 (± 6.3)	113.8 (± 10.3)
Control/0.1 mg/kg Morphine	6	7.1 (± 3.5)	17.9 (± 3.3)	101.1 (± 7.8)	82.1 (± 5.5)^*	126.1 (± 17.8)^*	111.8 (± 12.3)
2% Iso (6 h)/Saline	6	8.0 (± 3.0)	14.9 (± 5.4)	91.8 (± 2.9)	92.1 (± 1.9)^*	96.3 (± 9.5)	91.1 (± 5.0)
2% Iso(6 h)/0.1 mg/kg Morphine	6	10.0 (± 2.5)	16.3 (± 6.3	110.1 (± 16.2)	102.2 (± 9.7)^*	133.0 (± 9.5)^*	97.2 (± 7.8)

Exp. 4

10 mg/kg Cisplatin	6	2.9 (± 2.2)	11.9 (± 4.7)

Study 2
Exp. 5

2.5–4% Iso(6 h)/Saline	6	1.6 (± 0.3)	2.1 (± 0.2)	185.2 (± 39.9)	75.3 (± 7.6)	93.1 (± 17.1)	98.5 (± 18.4)
2.5–4% Iso(6 h)/0.1 mg/kg Morphine	6	3.2 (± 2.6)	1.7 (± 0.4)	157.5 (± 33.8)	90.8 (± 8.9)	81.4 (± 8.4)	98.4 (± 5.5)

p < 0.5, planned comparison, LSD-test vs. saline/control. Values are the mean ± SEM.