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. 2016 Aug 10;41(13):3092–3102. doi: 10.1038/npp.2016.127

Table 1. CUS Schedule.

CUS schedule for experiment 1
 Day −1 Habituation to fear conditioning contexts Day 9 Warm swim
 Day 0 Fear conditioning (all groups) Day 10 Social defeat
 Day 1 Restraint Day 11 Cold stress (begin food restriction for AST)
 Day 2 Shaking/crowding Day 12 Tail pinch
 Day 3 Social defeat Day 13 Cold swim
 Day 4 Warm swim Day 14 Cold stress
 Day 5 Wet bedding Day 15 AST habituation
 Day 6 Social defeat Day 16 AST training
 Day 7 Shaking/crowding Day 17 Extinction training (extinction groups only)
 Day 8 Cold stress Day 18 AST testing
       
CUS schedule for experiments 2–5
 Day −1 Habituation to fear conditioning contexts Day 9 Warm swima
 Day 0 Fear conditioning (extinction groups only) Day 10 Social defeat
 Day 1 Restraint Day 11 Footshock (begin food restriction for AST)
 Day 2 Shaking/crowding Day 12 Tail pinch
 Day 3 Social defeat Day 13 Cold swima
 Day 4 Warm swima Day 14 Cold stress
 Day 5 Wet bedding Day 15 AST habituation
 Day 6 Social defeat Day 16 AST training
 Day 7 Shaking/crowding Day 17 Extinction training or tone control treatment
 Day 8 Footshock Day 18 SPDB or AST testing
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Swim stress was replaced by other stressors in experiment 5 to avoid infection due to surgery.