Table 4.
Comparison the first and second hour meal pattern of refed rats with hM3D(Gq)-mCherry expression in the CEAm
| Saline | CNO | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First hour | Second hour | T-test for dependent samples p value |
First hour | Second hour | T-test for dependent samples p value |
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| Mean | SEM | Mean | SEM | Mean | SEM | Mean | SEM | |||
| Avarage Meal length (min) | 53,67 | 3,29 | 11,33 | 4,35 | 0,001 | 34,83 | 4,56 | 35,75 | 9,10 | 0,940 |
| Avarage food intake/meal (g) | 7,55 | 0,75 | 0,79 | 0,34 | 0,001 | 4,21 | 0,86 | 2,90 | 0,68 | 0,945 |
| Avarage intermeal inteval length (min) | 6,33 | 3,29 | 45,92 | 6,61 | 0,006 | 16,67 | 4,26 | 14,08 | 5,49 | 0,658 |
| Total length of meal intervals (min) | 53,67 | 3,29 | 11,33 | 4,35 | 0,002 | 43,33 | 4,26 | 40,17 | 7,16 | 0,680 |
| Total length of intermeal intervals (min) | 6,33 | 3,29 | 48,67 | 4,35 | 0,002 | 16,67 | 4,26 | 19,83 | 7,16 | 0,680 |
| Number of meal intervals | 1,00 | 0,00 | 0,67 | 0,21 | 0,170 | 1,33 | 0,21 | 1,33 | 0,21 | 1,000 |
| Number of intermeal intervals | 0,50 | 0,22 | 1,17 | 0,17 | 0,025 | 1,00 | 0,00 | 1,00 | 0,37 | 1,000 |