Table 3. Overall behavioral measures of zebrafish in the novel tank test (Experiment 2).
In adult zebrafish, exposure to 7 days of chronic unpredictable stress (CUS) increased the distance traveled in the top and the number of top zone entries whereas 7 days of chronic prazosin treatment increased the time spent in the top of zone of the novel tank test (N = 16 − 18 in each group). See text for results of significance testing.
| Control/Vehicle N = 16 | Control/Prazosin N = 18 | CUS/Vehicle N = 17 | CUS/Prazosin N = 18 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Variable | M | SD | M | SD | M | SD | M | SD |
| Total distance moved (cm) | 1075.90 | 611.65 | 1070.93 | 206.33 | 1162.93 | 349.64 | 1097.22 | 320.95 |
| Mean ambulatory speed (cm/s) | 5.83 | 2.60 | 5.21 | 1.07 | 5.31 | 1.05 | 5.13 | 0.96 |
| Time immobile (s) | 67.71 | 108.90 | 24.05 | 28.06 | 24.06 | 27.47 | 19.93 | 18.79 |
| Number of entries to top | 9.19 | 9.68 | 17.39 | 10.49 | 19.47 | 13.07 | 20.94 | 13.30 |
| Total time in top (s) | 34.78 | 40.07 | 67.42 | 44.41 | 63.59 | 45.87 | 74.91 | 49.61 |
| Distance in top (cm) | 140.69 | 160.39 | 236.92 | 173.72 | 294.23 | 207.33 | 271.54 | 161.64 |