title: Right-but not left-paw use in female rats provides advantage in forced swim tests.
abstract: Left- and right-pawed adult female Wistar rats were subjected to forced swimming on two consecutive days. Compared to the right-pawed group, left- pawed rats displayed significantly increased immobility from the first to the second swim test and remained significantly more immobile in the second swim test. Both groups performed similarly in spatial learning in the Morris water maze suggesting that left- pawed rats are differentially and specifically susceptible to depressogenic treatment.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ 08854, USA.
authors.forename: Efe
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Soyman
authors.affiliation: Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Bogazici University, Istanbul 34342, Turkey.
authors.forename: Elcin
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Tunckol
authors.affiliation: Department of Neuroscience, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY 10029, USA.
authors.forename: Emre
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Lacin
authors.affiliation: Psychobiology Laboratory, Department of Psychology, Bogazici University, Istanbul 34342, Turkey. Electronic address: canbeyli@boun.edu.tr.
authors.forename: Resit
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Canbeyli
mesh_terms: D000704:Analysis of Variance; D000818:Animals; D005121:Extremities / Q000502:physiology*; D005247:Feeding Behavior / Q000502:physiology; D005260:Female; D005508:Food Deprivation; D007839:Functional Laterality / Q000502:physiology*; D046353:Immobility Response, Tonic / Q000502:physiology; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar; D013550:Swimming / Q000502:physiology*
keywords: Depression; Forced swimming; Laterality; Paw preference; Water maze