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. 2017 Mar 10;12(3):e0173498. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0173498

Fig 1. Effects of neonatal overfeeding on the neonatal ghrelin system.

Fig 1

A) neonatal body weight, postnatal day (P) 12; n = 6 CL, 5 SL. B-D) serum ghrelin concentrations in control (CL) and neonatally overfed (SL) rats at P7 and P14; n = 8 for all groups. E) hypothalamic growth hormone secretagogue receptor (Ghsr) mRNA expression and F) ghrelin O-acyl transferase (GOAT; Mboat4); n = 8 CL P7, SL P7, CL P14, 7 SL P14. Data are mean + SEM. * p < 0.05. There was a significant main effect of age on acyl and total ghrelin, but no post hoc group differences in this measure. Post hoc differences between the groups are indicated by joining lines and *.