Table 4 Overview of ANOVA and, if appropriate, post-hoc pairwise comparisons of Fos-IR in various brain regions in response to the experimental conditions (Control, SxAT, CMT, RIT), and Pearson’s correlation coefficients between Fos-IR and individual behaviors.

From: Modelling sexual violence in male rats: the sexual aggression test (SxAT)

Area

ANOVA

Pairwise comparisons

F (2)

p

CON vs. SxAT

CON vs. CMT

CON vs. RIT

SxAT vs. RIT

SxAT vs. RIT

CMT vs. RIT

LHa

0.933

0.438

CeA

0.661

0.584

MePD

1.626

0.208

PRL

5.276

0.005

0.008

0.005

0.032

1.000

1.000

1.000

pAcC

5.689

0.004

0.012

0.006

0.006

1.000

1.000

1.000

BLA

4.644

0.010

0.022

0.008

0.042

1.000

1.000

1.000

VMHvl

6.375

0.002

0.004

0.033

0.002

1.000

1.000

.981

pCg2

3.960

0.019

0.014

0.083

0.073

1.000

1.000

1.000

aAcC

4.016

0.017

0.032

0.496

1.000

1.000

0.106

1.000

aAcS

5.757

0.004

0.003

0.322

0.142

0.160

0.616

1.000

pAcS

3.258

0.038

0.027

0.230

0.234

1.000

1.000

1.000

aAIC

7.412

0.001

0.003

0.045

1.000

1.000

0.013

0.376

pAIC

6.418

0.002

0.003

0.267

0.794

0.182

0.049

1.000

IL

3.412

0.032

0.083

0.028

0.466

1.000

1.000

0.986

aCg1

7.687

0.001

0.973

0.001

0.602

0.004

1.000

0.039

pCg1

3.582

0.028

0.152

0.027

0.922

1.000

1.000

0.404

MPOA

3.941

0.019

1.000

0.033

1.000

0.063

1.000

0.212

LSV

6.351

0.002

0.218

0.002

0.067

0.047

1.000

0.564

LSD

4.701

0.010

0.150

0.178

0.006

1.000

0.353

0.619

AHA

3.737

0.023

0.174

0.236

0.015

1.000

0.799

0.894

LHb

3.844

0.022

0.085

0.243

0.017

1.000

1.000

0.919

Area vs. Behavior

Pearson’s correlation coefficients

ALL

CMT

RIT

SxAT

r

p

r

p

r

p

r

p

aAIC

(F)M

0.126

0.531

0.247

0.555

0.517

0.235

0.052

0.837

AB

–075

0.711

–165

0.724

0.713

0.009

pAIC

(F)M

0.299

0.137

0.738

0.036

0.093

0.844

0.064

0.851

AB

0.068

0.742

–608

0.147

0.652

0.030

LSd

(F)M

–101

0.632

0.858

0.013

–0.07

0.882

–0.077

0.823

AB

0.291

0.159

–441

0.322

0.719

0.013

AHA

(F)M

–178

0.383

0.781

0.022

–470

0.288

–0.268

0.425

AB

0.518

0.007

0.707

0.076

0.687

0.019

  1. Significant differences and correlations in bold.