Table 2.

Number of positive NPY-immunoreactive cells in the ventral hippocampus (vHPC) of adolescent male and female rats, kept with the mother – control (CTL) or maternally deprived on postnatal days 3 (DEP3) or 11 (DEP11).

	NPY positive neurons in the vHPC
	CTL	DEP3	DEP11
Males	83.77 ± 15.4 (13)	85.54 ± 22.6 (11)	79.20 ± 16.6 (15)
Females	76.54 ± 9.2 (11)¥	60.70 ± 12.4 (10)¥	72.54 ± 13.8 (11)¥

The results are presented as mean ± SD of the number of animals shown in parenthesis. ¥ – Different from males.