Figure 3.
Social behavior in low‐dose aluminum‐treated C57BL/6J females. A‐E, Social interaction test: (A) distance travelled (cm), (B) number of contacts, (C) total duration of contacts (s), (D) total duration of active contacts (s), and (E) mean duration per contact (s). F‐I, Three‐chamber social approach test, which was consisted of sociability test followed by social novelty preference test: (F) time spent in the chamber with the empty cage or the cage containing a stranger mouse (stranger 1) and (G) time spent around the empty cage or the cage containing a stranger mouse (stranger 1) in the sociability test. (H) Time spent in chamber with the cage containing stranger 1 or stranger 2 and (I) time spent around cage containing stranger 1 or stranger 2 in the social novelty preference test. J, K, Home‐cage social interaction test: (J) the mean activity level and (K) mean number of animals detected over 3 d