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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Brain Behav Immun. 2013 Feb 26;32:63–69. doi: 10.1016/j.bbi.2013.02.003

Figure 1. Aged mice do not recover loss of body weight in response to infection with BCG.

Figure 1

Changes in body weight from pre-inoculation baselines were calculated at the indicated times. Adult mice lost weight at 1 and 7 days post-infection (*P<0.001) but regained their weight by 14 days and maintained it through 21 days. In contrast, aged mice lost body weight post-infection (*P<0.001) and failed to recover this loss over the 3-week experiment. Asterisks denote a statistical difference (P<0.05) between saline and BCG-treated mice at a given time in either adult or aged mice. Data represent the mean ± SEM (n=5–7 mice per treatment group and for each time point).