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. 2014 May 14;9(5):e97603. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0097603

Figure 3. Age-related effects of fluoxetine and regional differences in cell differentiation.

Figure 3

An example of doublecortin (DCX) expression along the subgranular zone is shown for adult-treated (A) and adolescent-treated rats (B). C) Two-Way ANOVA revealed both a significant age-by-treatment interaction effect (p  =  0.036) and a significant effect of age (p < 0.001) on the expression of DCX+ cells. D) There were regional differences in the amount of DCX+ cells. There was a significant effect of age in all sub-regions (p < 0.001), a significant treatment effect in the ventral infrapyramidal blade of the dentate gyrus (p  =  0.021), and a significant age-by-treatment interaction effect in the dorsal infrapyramidal blade (p  =  0.028). E) There was both a significant effect of age (p  =  0.017) as well as a main effect of treatment (p  =  0.045) on dentate gyrus volume. Dentate gyrus volume comprised the SGZ plus GCL. *  =  main effect of age; Inline graphic  =  main effect of treatment; #  =  age-by-treatment effect. P-values below 0.050 were considered statistically significant. Error bars indicate ± 1 S.E.M.