Fig.3.

Animal’s body weight profiles in Ctl, Ctl+WD, Hypo, and Hypo+WD rats, and morphometric characteristic of NADPH-d labeled neurons of their wS1/M1 cortices. A. The body weight profile of rats from PND21 to PND60, B. Morphological deformities characteristic of hypothyroidism including: underweight, blunt snout, unfolded ears and rounded body in one case a hypothyroid rat compared to normal rat at PND 60, C, D. Number of NADPH-d neurons which was counted in laminas II/III–VI, E, and F. The longest dendrites length of NADPH-d neurons. All data are expressed as mean ± SEM.

*, #; Indicate that all hypothyroid and whisker deprivation values are significantly different from the corresponding controls (*P<0.05, **P<0.01, ***P<0.001, #P<0.05, ##P<0.01), Ctl; Control, WD; Whisker-deprived, Hypo; Hypothyroid, wS1; Whisker part of somatosensory cortex, and wM1; Whisker part of primary motor cortices.