Coping with the Forced Swim Stressor: Towards Understanding an Adaptive Mechanism

Table 1

The effect of a single dose of 25 mg/kg of imipramine administered one hr before or 15 min after training on day 1 on rat mobility in the forced swim test.

Injection time		No. of impulses, day 1	% no. of impulses, day 2
Saline	7	409.85 ± 48.79	42.63 ± 11.50
15 min after	7	420.14 ± 45.93	94.39 ± 8.38
1 hour before	6	421.66 ± 39.75	93.06 ± 16.44

Statistical significance (at < .01) with respect to the saline group.
Adapted and reprinted from De Pablo et al. [9] with permission from Elsevier B.V.