Meiqiu Liu

Training Request a detailed protocol Step 1, food restriction. Food restriction includes food deprivation and food limitation. First, the mice were deprived of food for 24 hr to enhance the appeal of the food pellet to the mice while water consumption remained normal. Then, after 24 hr of food deprivation, each cage of mice was given 5 g/mouse of food every morning to meet their daily food requirements until the end of the test. Step 2, contextual familiarization (Figure 1B).

Abstract With the acceleration of urbanization process, psychological, behavioral and biological studies on social organization and competition are boosting. The mouse has been recognized as valuable and economic model animal for biomedical research in social behaviors, but the application of reliable, valid and easily executable social competition paradigm for mouse is still limited.