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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Biol Psychiatry. 2017 Jul 29;83(1):9–17. doi: 10.1016/j.biopsych.2017.07.014

Figure 5.

Figure 5

Effects of the vicarious defeat stress (VDS) paradigm on sucrose preference in female c57BL/6 mice. (A) When compared to non-stressed controls (CON, n=10), female mice exposed to emotional/psychological stress (ES, n=10) displayed a decrease in preference for a 1% sucrose solution during the last 4-days of defeat [postnatal day (PD) 76-79]; gray area). This decrease in preference for sucrose remained 24 h after the last episode of stress (PD 80). (B) No differences in total liquid intake ([sucrose+water]/body weight) were observed between the groups. Data are presented as mean + SEM. *Indicates p<0.05 when compared to CON.