Table 1.

Effects of the fatty acid mixture on behavior in the elevated plus maze in 28-day-old rats.

	Vehicle	FAM	FAM + picrotoxin	Diazepam	p
Open arm entries (n)	7.0 ± 1.2	10.5 ± 1.5	5.2 ± 1.3	19.8 ± 2.1∗	<0.001
Close arm entries (n)	10.0 ± 1.4	8.5 ± 1.0	9.6 ± 0.9	14.8 ± 1.6∗	<0.01
Total entries (n)	17.0 ± 2.3	19.0 ± 2.6	14.8 ± 1.8	34.7 ± 2.7∗	<0.001
Head-dipping (s)	5.3 ± 1.5	12.9 ± 3.6	4.9 ± 1.3	20.5 ± 3.6∗	<0.001
Stretch-attend (s)	13.0 ± 3.1	17.2 ± 3.9	12.9 ± 3.1	11.0 ± 3.5	0.902

FAM, fatty acid mixture. The data are expressed as mean ± SEM. ^∗p < 0.05, versus all groups (Student-Newman-Keuls test).