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. 2019 Aug 22;9:12270. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-48800-2

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Opposite effects of acute exposure (7 days) to HFD on hippocampal plasticity in juvenile and adult male rats. (A) Schematic representation of the experimental procedure. (B) Time course plots of normalized field post-synaptic potentials (fPSPs) recorded in vivo before and after theta burst stimulation (TBS) of the Schaffer collateral-CA1 pathway. (C) Bar histogram representing percentage of long-term potentiation (LTP) during the 40 min after TBS in the same groups as described in (B). A significant interaction between diet and age of exposure was observed [F(1, 19) = 24.8, P < 0.001] with exposure to HFD impairing LTP in juvenile animals (***P = 0.002) whereas in adults, HFD exposure enhanced LTP (*P = 0.04).