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Review Articles

Describing some behavioural animal models of anxiety and their mechanistics with special reference to oxidative stress and oxytocin relevanceFootnote

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Pages 98-104 | Received 15 May 2017, Accepted 29 Aug 2017, Published online: 03 May 2019

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Fig. 1 The interactions between anxiety and depression-related behaviors as studied in various tasks in rat animal models, as described by Balmus et al. [Citation46].
Fig. 2 Preliminary data of the consequences of intranasal (IN) and intraperitoneal (IP) oxytocin (OXT) administration (10 UI, for one week) on the numbers of open arms entries (a parameter of anxiety) in elevated plus maze (EPM) in a rat model of autism, based on Valproic acid (VPA) administration. Post-hoc analysis are equivalent for a, b, and c on the chart (***P < .01, *P < .05).