Increased Mesohippocampal Dopaminergic Activity and Improved Depression-Like Behaviors in Maternally Separated Rats Following Repeated Fasting/Refeeding Cycles
Figure 1
Ambulatory counts (a) and travel distance (b) of NH and MS rats, which were recorded consecutively at every 5 min during 60 min of test period. NH/RFR and MS/RFR rats and their age-matching free fed control rats (NH/FC and MS/FC) were subjected to the ambulatory test on PND 54 at the end of the 13th refeeding session. *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01 versus NH/FC, ##P < 0.01 versus MS/FC, NH: nonhandled, MS: maternal separation, FC: free fed control, RFR: repeated fasting/refeeding, min: minutes. Data are presented as means ± S.E.
