Figure 2.

Treatment of pregnant females with the antitestosterone CA prevented the stress effect on trace conditioning in male but not female offspring when trained as adults. (a) Levels of conditioning [percentage of (%) CRs] in stressed and unstressed adult males exposed to the vehicle in utero and trained as adults. Data are presented as a mean percentage of CRs ± SE that occurred over 600 trials of training. Spontaneous blinks (s) are presented as a percentage of 30 samples in which a blink occurred. (b) Levels of conditioning (% CRs) in stressed and unstressed males exposed to CA in utero and trained as adults. (c) Levels of conditioning (% CRs) in stressed and unstressed females exposed to the vehicle in utero and trained in proestrus as adults. (d) Levels of conditioning (% CRs) in stressed and unstressed female rats exposed to CA in utero and trained during proestrus as adults. (e–g) Hormone levels in the above groups >48 h after stress and minutes after the end of training.