Sucrose Preference Test
Objective: Assessment of anhedonia and hedonic state through preference for sucrose solution
This is a Sucrose Preference Test protocol using mouse as the model organism. The procedure involves 1 procedural steps, 1 materials. Extracted from a 2014 paper published in Journal of Neuroscience.
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Core workflow
Sucrose Preference Test
Primary readouts
- Sucrose preference (preference for sucrose solution over water)
- Hedonic state assessment
- Anhedonia indicators
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Sucrose Preference Test
Mice were tested for sucrose preference as a measure of hedonic state and anhedonia
Note: This test measures depression-related phenotypes in rodents. Mice with dMHb lesions showed deficits in sucrose preference.
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“These mice also show deficits in sucrose preference, but not in the forced swim test, two measures of depression-related phenotypes in rodents.”