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. 2013 Mar 18;7:21. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2013.00021

Table 2.

Data from anxiety-like behavior measures.

Elevated plus maze High-contact offspring (n = 48) Low-contact offspring (n = 36)
Mean SE Mean SE
Time in center* 35.35 4.64 59.92 14.27
Time in open arms 111.10 14.04 103.06 19.41
Time in closed arms 125.56 14.68 142.92 16.90
Time autogrooming 14.92 6.36 21.67 6.61
Total arm entries 11.84 1.16 10.54 1.19
Proportion of time in open arms 0.47 0.05 0.45 0.06
Open field arena (n = 47) (n = 35)
Time in center 99.76 8.55 93.74 7.60
Time in periphery 493.80 8.16 503.48 7.64
Line crossings 608.21 40.46 613.14 49.69
Rearing 48.80 4.08 49.51 5.72
Time autogrooming 20.31 3.89 21.08 3.80

Elevated plus maze, low-contact offspring spent more time in the center of the maze compared to high-contact offspring [F(1, 70) = 4.82, p = 0.03]; Open field arena, groups did not differ in anxiety-like behavior as measured in an open field arena.

*

Significant difference between groups; p = 0.03.