Effects of Early-Life Stress on Social and Anxiety-Like Behaviors in Adult Mice: Sex-Specific Effects

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Timeline of the experiment (a), weights of the body (b), relative weights of adrenal glands (c), and thymus (d) in adult male and female mice. Handling decreased the weight of the body in males but not females. Females have the only tendency to reduce relative adrenal weight under early postnatal stress. Relative weights of adrenal glands and thymus are shown as organ weight in mg per gram of body weight. Data present as mean ± standard error of the mean (SEM). White box: controls (males , females ); grey box: HD (males , females ), black box: MS (males , females ); open columns: males; cross-hatched columns: females. compared to controls.

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