Assessment of the Central Effects of Natural Uranium via Behavioural Performances and the Cerebrospinal Fluid Metabolome

Table 1

Body weight, food consumption, water consumption, and cortical uranium concentration of male rats at the end of the experiments.

	Weight (g)	Food consumption (g⋅day^−1⋅rat^−1)	Water consumption (mL⋅day^−1⋅rat^−1)	Cortical NU concentration (ng⋅g^−1)
Control	650.9 13.5	28.8 0.9	24.9 0.8	0.51 0.06
NU 1.5	639.1 17.2	27.7 0.4	24.8 2.0	0.43 0.04
NU 10	635.5 15.3	28.3 0.6	26.2 2.0	1.07 0.11
NU 40	651.5 21.5	28.2 0.8	28.0 2.7	1.62 0.23

Results are expressed as mean SEM for control and exposed animals to 1.5, 10, and 40 mg⋅L⁻¹ NU; /group; NU: natural uranium; , significant difference from control.