Rats that slowly get used to running on a wheel over 8 days don’t show signs of stress in their blood — their stress markers either stay the same or go down, suggesting the routine isn’t stressing them out.

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Hypothalamic Crh/Avp, Plasmatic Glucose and Lactate Remain Unchanged During Habituation to Forced Exercise

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2020

The study found that rats getting used to running on a wheel over 8 days didn’t show signs of stress in their blood, and those signs even went down over time, which supports the idea that habituation helps reduce stress from forced exercise.

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Hypothalamic Crh/Avp, Plasmatic Glucose and Lactate Remain Unchanged During Habituation to Forced Exercise

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DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2020.00410

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