Table 2.

Summary of morphological effects of stress effects in IL neurons in males and OVX + veh and OVX + E animals

	Unlabeled neurons			BLA-projecting neurons
	Males	OVX + veh	OVX + E	Males	OVX + veh	OVX + E
Dendrites	Retraction	No change	No change	No change	No change	Expansion
Spine density	No change	Increase	No change	No change	Increase	Increase

Note: In both unlabeled and BLA-projecting neurons, the morphological effects of stress differ between males and females, suggesting both sex- and hormone-regulated responses to stress