Deletion of Ovarian Hormones Induces a Sickness Behavior in Rats Comparable to the Effect of Lipopolysaccharide

Figure 5

Comparison of the percent number of entries to the open arm (a) and the percent of time spent in open arm (b) in the elevated plus maze test between four groups. Data are expressed as mean ± SEM ( in each group). The percent number of entries into and the percent of time spent in the open arm by the animals of OVX and Sham-LPS groups were lower than that of Sham group (). There were no significant differences between OVX-LPS and OVX groups.

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