According to our definition of CNV regions (CNVRs, see Materials and Methods), we identified about 101 CNVRs in each GK rat on average, covering approximately 26 M base pairs, i.e., about 1% of the rat genome (Table S1 and S2), whose order of magnitude was the same as the overall length of published rat CNVRs (22 Mb and 15.5 Mb on two different platforms) [21].
Sleep was effectively prevented during the procedure; rats on average slept less than 1% of the time (0.8 ± 0.2%, mean ± standard error).
At the start of the experiment, these rats on average weighed 233 g (14 g; standard deviation, SD).
The Pirc rat model shows a distribution of fates similar to the human: in these rats, on average, 71% of adenomas grow, whereas 25% are static and 4% regress (Irving et al., 2011; Irving, 2014).
During any given session the pseudo-random stooge rat cooperates on average 50% of the trials.
The non-diabetic DP-BB rats were on average 50 days older than the diabetic rats.
The average DNA halo size has been correlated with the average DNA-loop size [ 68, 70], and so it was possible to estimate that the hepatocytes from senescent rats have on average a smaller DNA-loop size than in young adult rats: 31 and 48.9 kbp from tip to base, respectively [ 52].
Rats responded on average 75.521 times out of an average 77.934 SD presentations, giving the SD the strongest correlation with the cocaine infusion at 0.969.
Since Lm = 4 ms for the tail-flick response in rats [8], on average, Ld = 132 (117–146) ms. Importantly, it was confirmed that Ld was not influenced significantly by T0.
Again, the F344 rats performed, on average, worse than the other three strains (General mean: F1,28 = 33.82, p < 0.0001), as confirmed by Sidak post-hoc comparisons.
Instead of using avoidances (SHAV; of which N/Nih-HS rats make on average less than 4 in the whole 40-trial session) as the dependent variable for these analyses, we have used SHAV-ITC (sum of avoidances and intertrial crossings).
