Figure 2.
Mean (±SEM) corticosterone levels (ng/mL) measured in plasma from 150-mg/kg DEHP-female and control F3 mice. (A) Under baseline conditions DEHP-lineage mice tended to have lower corticosterone levels than control females (#P = .10). (B) After 15 minutes of restraint stress, DEHP-lineage females had lower corticosterone than control females; *, P < .05 (control-lineage females stressed, n = 10; control-lineage females baseline, n = 9; DEHP-lineage females stressed, n = 8; DEHP-lineage females baseline, n = 10; control-lineage males stressed, n = 6; control-lineage males baseline, n = 6; DEHP-lineage males stressed, n = 8; DEHP-lineage males baseline, n = 7).