FIGURE 12.

Control experiments identify necessity of relationship-dependent vicarious defeat for anxiety incubation. (A) Positions in the light-dark box test indicate that ParObsStrPH mice did not develop the behavioral differences in the late phase, although ParObsStrPH mice displayed the difference in the early phase (n_xScenIso = 8, n_ParObsStrPH = 5, n_xAggrExpIso = 5). (B) Nose poking times in the female stranger test indicate that ParObsStrPH mice did not develop the social differences (n_xScenIso = 5, n_ParObsStrPH = 5, n_xAggrExpIso = 5). *, 0.01 ≤ p < 0.05.