Autism-Like Behaviours and Memory Deficits Result from a Western Diet in Mice

Figure 4

The cholesterol-enriched diet enhances horizontal and vertical activity during food competition test. In comparison to control mice, animals exposed to the cholesterol-enriched diet showed (a) a significant increase in the total number of line crossing ( versus that in the control group, t-test), (b) significant elevation of the total number of rearings ( versus that in the control group, Mann-Whitney test), (c) and a significant decrease in the latency of rearings ( versus that in the control group, t-test). Control—standard diet, WD—high-cholesterol diet. Data are shown as mean ± SEM (a, c) and median with interquartile range (b).