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This is a peer-review report submitted for the paper “Effects of Ventral Pallidum–Nucleus Accumbens Shell Neural Pathway Modulation on Sucrose Consumption and Motivation in Female Rats: Chemogenetic Manipulation Study.”
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1. In the third paragraph of the Introduction, the sentence beginning with “Parallelly” is very awkward; I am sure there is a way to word this that does not use “parallelly.” Also, the previous sentence could be made clearer as to whether effects on sucrose consumption are found just in female rats.
2. The number of subjects should be listed in the Methods.
3. In the last paragraph of the body of the manuscript, the sentence beginning with “The discrepancies observed across studies of this pathway...” is unfinished, and I am uncertain what the authors intended to say.
4. In discussing the differences between the results observed here and those reported by Vanchez et al [
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