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Table 5 Effects of sex and batch number on ZM, "novel-cage test" and shuttlebox variables, taking body weight as a quantitative covariate (ANCOVA analyses).

From: Effects of environmental and physiological covariates on sex differences in unconditioned and conditioned anxiety and fear in a large sample of genetically heterogeneous (N/Nih-HS) rats

Variable

 

Sex

Batch

Body weight

Sex × Batch

ZM-E

F =

P =

11.2

< .05

5.4

< .001

6.2

< .001

3.8

< .01

ZM-T

F =

P =

6.6

< .001

8.0

< .001

4.9

< .05

3.9

< .01

ZM-SAP

F =

P =

30.7

< .001

75.5

< .001

0.3

n.s.

4.5

< .001

NACT-DIST5

F =

P =

34.5

< .001

9.5

< .001

1.3

n.s.

2.4

< .05

NACT-DIST30

F =

P =

3.0

n.s.

3.9

< .001

0.3

n.s.

1.0

n.s.

FREEZ

F =

P =

6.4

< .05

10.5

< .001

5.3

< .05

0.7

n.s.

SHAV-ITC

F =

P =

10.3

< .001

4.8

< .001

1.5

n.s.

3.2

< .01

  1. Factorial ANCOVA (analysis of covariance) analysis, "2 sex × 6 batch", including "body weight" as a quantitative covariate, for ZM test, novel-cage activity and shuttlebox variables. See Table 1 for other details and for variable symbols.
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Behavioral and Brain Functions

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