Body weight changes in male mice exposed to chronic psychosocial stress.

<p>Implementing food poverty merely or coincided with food inequality (with or without cage-mate change) have caused significant decrease in body weight of both males and females (there is no difference between these two genders). FD+See: Food Deprived and inequality experienced group, FD+Isolate: Food Deprived group without inequitable situation, FD+CC+See: Food Deprived group which also experienced inequality and cage-mate change simultaneously, FD+CC+Isolate: Food Deprived and cage-mate change experienced group without inequitable situation, CC = the group which just experienced cage-mate change. *p<0.05: beginning of study vs. end of chronic social stress (Values are means ± SEM; n = 6–8 animals in each group).