Essay
Sucrose preference testing as a measure of anhedonia in "postpartum" rats
2008
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/2575
Abstract
The results of our experiments suggested that rats that had undergone honnone-simulated pregnancy did develop anhedonia in the early honnone withdrawal ("postpartum") period. However, we were surprised to find that the same did not hold true for actual previously pregnant rats. These results led us to conclude that the dramatic decline in estradiol that occurs when women give birth may be one of the major contributing factors to postpartum depression, but that the honnone-simulated pregnancy may not be an accurate model for real pregnancy in rats. This is not surprising since the postpartum period of actual pregnancy involves marked changes in honnones besides estradiol that are not modeled in the honnone-simulated pregnancy.
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- Title
- Sucrose preference testing as a measure of anhedonia in "postpartum" rats
- Creators
- Brittany M. Navarre (Author)
- Contributors
- Rebecca Craft (Advisor)
- Academic Unit
- Honors Theses (WSU Pullman, Passed with Distinction)
- Identifiers
- 99900590547301842
- Copyright
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- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Essay