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. 2018 Aug 7;8:11847. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-30291-2

Figure 4.

Figure 4

Chronic stress reverses the emotional phenotype and the hippocampal transcriptional signature in Tph2 KO mice. (A) Immobility time in the FST (WT n = 20, KO n = 18, WT-S n = 21, KO-S n = 17; two-way ANOVA followed by Fisher’s post-hoc tests, effect of uCMS F3,72 = 14.907, p = 0.0002. No genotype x uCMS interaction; KO-S vs KO F1,31 = 12.825, p = 0.0002) and (B) TST (WT n = 10, KO n = 12; WT-S n = 15, KO-S n = 14; two-way ANOVA followed by Fisher’s post-hoc tests, effect of uCMS F3,72 = 12.282, p = 0.001. No genotype x uCMS interaction; KO-S vs KO F1,24 = 7,646, p = 0.0108) of WT-S and KO-S mice and their respective controls. (C) Overlapping distribution of DE genes in a Venn diagram across the three comparisons (KO-S = KO-S vs KO; WT-S = WT-S vs WT; KO = KO vs WT). (D) Heat map showing how DE genes in the KO-S/KO comparison (in yellow) are regulated in the KO/WT comparison. (E) Heat map showing how DE genes in the WT-S/WT (in yellow) are regulated in the KO-S/KO and KO/WT comparisons. n indicates biological replicates. FST, Forced Swim Test; TST, Tail Suspension Test; uCMS, unpredictable Chronic Mild Stress.