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Published in final edited form as: Brain Behav Immun. 2014 Oct 12;44:195–206. doi: 10.1016/j.bbi.2014.09.015

Table-2. Effects of 6 RSD cycles on dependent variables of body weight, splenic mass and CCL2 mRNA expression in splenic macrophages (n = 8 – 9/group).

Dependent variable	Control	RSD	two-tailed p value

Body weight (g)	23.65 ± 0.38	25.28 ± 0.65	0.0457
Splenic mass (mg)	65.11 ± 1.78 (median = 66)	149.89 ± 6.10 (median = 151)	< 0.0001^*
Ratio of splenic mass to body weight	0.00275 ± 0.00006 (median = 0.00276)	0.00598 ± 0.00032 (median = 0.00612)	< 0.0001^*
CCL2 mRNA expression (2^-ΔΔC_Tvalues)	1.111 ± 0.064 (median = 1.138)	2.574 ± 0.206 (median = 2.471)	< 0.05^*

Two-tailed unequal variance t-test was used to calculate p values because equal variance F tests for splenic mass, the ratio and CCL2 mRNA expression failed

Data are represented as mean ± standard error of mean