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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Horm Behav. 2016 May 14;83:45–59. doi: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2016.05.011

Table 2. Changes in cloacal gland area during hormonal manipulations.

Cloacal gland area of intact females (SHAM), ovariectomized (OVX), ovariectomized females treated with testosterone (OVX+T) or ovariectomized females treated with testosterone and Vorozole (OVX+T+VOR, only in exp. 3) measured before and during (Days/rows annotated with the mention “TRT”) treatment (exp. 3) or just before the sacrifice (exp. 4). Testosterone induced an increase of the size of cloacal gland in both experiments.

Exp. 3 SHAM OVX OVX+T OVX+T+VOR
Day −40 74.6 ± 5.0 *** 29.6 ± 2.5 28.7 ± 2.1 29.5 ± 1.8
Day −33 84.0 ± 6.5 *** 33.7 ± 5.3 36.0 ± 5.0 30.0 ± 3.2
Day −26 78.7 ± 4.7 *** 34.1 ± 4.7 41.6 ± 6.9 32.3 ± 3.7
Day −19 79.3 ± 5.3 *** 31.5 ± 5.4 38.3 ± 8.8 30.5 ± 2.8
Day −12 83.2 ± 5.8 *** 31.8 ± 4.4 29.3 ± 2.9 26.6 ± 1.4
Day −5 83.2 ± 5.8 *** 31.8 ± 4.4 29.3 ± 2.9 26.6 ± 1.4
Day 2 TRT 88.5 ± 6.5 *** 28.5 ± 3.1 45.9 ± 2.7 59.9 ± 4.3
Day 9 TRT 94.9 ± 7.1 *** 29.6 ± 2.9 120.2 ± 10.0 *** 124.5 ± 8.7 ***
Day 16 TRT 102.5 ± 5.8 *** 26.8 ± 1.9 142.2 ± 10.0 *** 149.6 ± 12.3 ***
Day 23 TRT 93.5 ± 9.3 *** 23.7 ± 3.0 137.2 ± 12. 4 *** 147.2 ± 10.8 ***

Exp. 4 SHAM OVX OVX+T

Day 21 TRT 100.0 ± 9.3 * 30.3 ± 3.1 156.2 ± 13.6 *
*

p < 0.05,

***

p < 0.001 compared to OVX.