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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Sep 2.
Published in final edited form as: Behav Brain Res. 2019 Apr 24;369:111923. doi: 10.1016/j.bbr.2019.111923

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Six weeks of exercise blocked reductions in juvenile social exploration following uncontrollable stress. Sedentary (Sed) and voluntary wheel running (Run) rats remained in their home cages (No stress) or were exposed to 100 uncontrollable tail shocks (Stress). Juvenile social exploration was measured 24 h later. Social exploration was calculated as the total time (seconds) spent performing exploratory behaviors. These behaviors did not differ between rats in metestrus and diestrus (Met/Di) or proestrus and estrus (Pro/Est) phases of the estrous cycle. Symbols represent values of individual rats in either Met/Di (white diamonds, n=4/group) or Pro/Est (gray triangles, n=4/group). Group means Met/Di: Sed No Stress = 63.2, Sed Stress = 47.9, Run No Stress = 79.8, Run Stress = 64.6. Group means Pro/Est: Sed No Stress = 74.1, Sed Stress = 49.7, Run No Stress = 68.1, Run Stress = 74.5. Bars represent group means (regardless of estrous phase) ± SEM. ANOVA: *p < 0.01 relative to all other groups.