A chronic unpredictable stress protocol to model anhedonic and resilient behaviors in C57BL/6J mice

Summary: The complexity of the depressive symptoms observed in humans makes modeling depressive behavior in rodents challenging. Here, we present a highly reproducible protocol to generate mouse models that mimic several aspects of depression, namely anhedonia and loss of motivation. We describe acc...

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Main Authors: Monika Bijata, Ewa Bączyńska, Jakub Wlodarczyk
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2022-09-01
Series:STAR Protocols
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666166722005391