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. 2017 Dec 4;12(12):e0188907. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0188907

Table 2. Density of TrkB (BDNF receptors), OT-R (oxytocin receptors), V1a and V3 (vasopressin receptors) in mice belonging to ECR and ECP subgroups.

ECR ECP F (df) p
TrkB Prefrontal cortex 1.690 ± 0.107 1.949 ± 0.217 1.147 (1,12) 0.3053
Striatum 0.845 ± 0.80 0.671 ± 0.071 2.640 (1,12) 0.1302
Hypothalamus 1.148 ± 0.072 1.490 ± 0.094 8.555 (1,11) 0.0138*
Hippocampus 0.650 ± 0.048 0.861 ± 0.071 5.665 (1,11) 0.0365*
OT-R Prefrontal cortex 0.536 ± 0.025 0.585 ± 0.057 0.608 (1,12) 0.4507
Striatum 0.467 ± 0.054 0.447 ± 0.053 0.069 (1,12) 0.7976
Hypothalamus 0.575 ± 0.042 0.550 ± 0.053 0.140 (1,12) 0.7144
Hippocampus 0.731 ± 0.060 0.779 ± 0.073 0.258 (1,12) 0.6209
V1a Prefrontal cortex 0.881 ± 0.121 0.769 ± 0.220 0.197 (1,12) 0.6648
Striatum 0.489 ± 0.132 0.352 ± 0.039 0.987 (1,12) 0.3401
Hypothalamus 0.565 ± 0.045 0.775 ± 0.159 1.599 (1,12) 0.2301
Hippocampus 0.614 ± 0.056 0.675 ± 0.085 0.359 (1,12) 0.5600
V3 Prefrontal cortex 0.910 ± 0.079 0.905 ± 0.276 0.000 (1,12) 0.9839
Striatum 0.579 ± 0.108 0.603 ± 0.090 0.030 (1,12) 0.8662
Hypothalamus 0.642 ± 0.053 0.623 ± 0.091 0.033 (1,12) 0.8581
Hippocampus 0.551 ± 0.071 0.639 ± 0.095 0.555 (1,12) 0.4707

Density of receptors (normalized against Glyceraldehyde-3-phosphate dehydrogenase, GAPDH) in relevant brain areas (prefrontal cortex, striatum, hypothalamus and hippocampus) in ECR and ECP mice. Data are expressed as mean ± SEM.

* p < 0.05 ECR vs ECP.