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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 May 5.
Published in final edited form as: Physiol Behav. 2011 Feb 18;104(2):340–347. doi: 10.1016/j.physbeh.2011.02.021

Figure 5.

Figure 5

Investigatory behavior in the elevated zero maze. (A) Prenatally stressed (PS) females displayed longer bout durations of stretch-attend (risk assessment) than did nonstressed (NS) females. No differences in stretch-attend bout durations were observed between PS and NS males. (B) PS females spent less time in the open walls of the elevated zero than NS females, whereas no differences were observed between PS and NS males. (C) PS females traveled less in the open walls than did NS females, whereas no difference in distance traveled in open arms was found between PS and NS males. NS females, n=9; stressed PS females, n=9; NS males, n=9; PS males, n=8. Data expressed as mean ± SEM. Asterisk (*) indicates a significant difference (p<0.05) between groups.