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Sucrose Preference and Novelty-Induced Hypophagia Tests in Rats using an Automated Food Intake Monitoring System

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The Sucrose Preference and Novelty-Induced Hypophagia Tests are established techniques for evaluating anhedonia. Their combination with the automated intake monitoring system, allows a detailed analysis with high accuracy. This protocol reduces th

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Presented here is a protocol to study depression-like and anhedonic behavior in rats. It combines two well-established behavioral methods, the sucrose preference and novelty-induced hypophagia tests, with an automated food and liquid intake monitoring system, to indirectly investigate rodent behavior using surrogate parameters.

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