. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 May 13.

Published in final edited form as: Psychopharmacology (Berl). 2012 May 29;224(2):263–276. doi: 10.1007/s00213-012-2749-2

Table 2.

Maternal and non-maternal behaviors of postpartum rats after BSTv infusion of idazoxan. Groups with different superscript letters are statistically different from one another (post-hoc p ≤.017).

	Idazoxan Dose
	0 μg (n = 9)	10 μg (n = 7)	20 μg (n = 9)	F (2,22)	p
Latency (s)
Contact pups	5 ± 2	5 ± 3	3 ± 1	0.26	0.771
Retrieve first pup^*	9 ± 3	119 ± 82	170 ± 83	1.54	0.237
Hover over pups after all in nest	73 ± 61	344 ± 267	521 ± 299	1.08	0.358
Nurse pups after all in nest	419 ± 112^a	863 ± 241^ab	1156 ± 245^b	3.55	0.046
Duration (s)
Lick pups	192 ± 70	177 ± 72	130 ± 49	0.27	0.764
Nest/burrow	81 ± 49	28 ± 14	89 ± 74	0.33	0.734
Self-grooming	111 ± 37^a	196 ± 42^a	432 ± 103^b	5.79	0.096
Explore cage	137 ± 48	326 ± 94	467 ± 151	2.50	0.106
Hover over pups	546 ± 114	508 ± 195	554 ± 149	0.03	0.976
Nursing	1767 ± 167^a	1166 ± 311^ab	787 ± 214^b	5.15	0.015
Total time spent with pups	2313 ± 122^a	1673 ± 311^ab	1340 ± 306^b	4.05	0.032
% Time nursing after pups in nest	68 ± 6^a	47 ± 12^ab	33 ± 10^b	4.12	0.030
Litter Weight Gain (g)	2.33 ± 0.37^a	1.37 ± 0.58^ab	0.82 ± 0.24^b	4.08	0.031

non-responders assigned latency of 600 sec.