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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jan 22.
Published in final edited form as: Neuroscience. 2014 Oct 8;0:381–399. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2014.09.075

Table 2.

Licking microstructure of rats bearing bilateral excitotoxic (non-selective) lesions of the PPTg. Table shows group means. S.E.M. shows standard error of the mean. Sig indicates whether lesion group is significantly different to corresponding sham group.

Total licks Total bursts Burst duration Inter-lick interval
Sham Lesion Sham Lesion Sham Lesion Sham Lesion
Water alone 3910 3107 39.5 39.4 108.44 89.1 0.20 0.20
S.E.M. ± 92.8 ± 21.3 ± 4.0 ± 4.5 ± 9.7 ± 12.2 ± 0.005 ± 0.009
Sig (vs sham) p = 0.03 n.s. n.s. n.s.
20% sucrose 17162 19759 292.0 306.9 70.4 67.75 0.21 0.20
S.E.M. ±722.5 ±1575.3 ± 37.5 ±40.4 ± 6.9 ±9.7 ± 0.006 ±0.003
Sig (vs sham) p = 0.003 n.s. n.s. n.s.
0.3% saccharin 20296 17983 672.50 597.6 40.9 38.79 0.21 0.21
S.E.M. ±1946.5 ±2800.8 0±109.6 ±105.6 ±6.7 ±6.4 ±0.007 ±0.005
Sig (vs sham) n.s. n.s. n.s. n.s.
0.01% quinine 100 306 18.56 33.6 4.4 7.77 0.21 0.23
S.E.M. ±28.3 ±102 ±4.2 ±4.0 ±0.3 ±1.7 ±0.011 ±0.012
Sig (vs sham) p = 0.049 p = 0.015 p = 0.045 n.s.
0.9% saline 3247 3717 60.65 73.1 51.4 60.70 0.24 0.22
S.E.M. ±889.7 ±445.9 ±11.7 ±10.2 ±7.9 ±8.3 ±0.014 ±0.009
Sig (vs sham) n.s. n.s. n.s. n.s.

n.s. = non-significant difference.