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

Figure 4.

Figure 4

Effects of glucocorticoid receptors blockade on juvenile HFD-induced impairments of object location memory and hippocampal plasticity. (A) Schematic representation of the experimental procedure. (B) HFD impaired long-term OLM in vehicle (Veh)-treated juveniles, and GR blockade with RU486 (RU) rescued OLM in the HFD group without affecting OLM in CD groups [Interaction Drug × Diet: F(1, 32) = 9.15 ***P = 0.005]. (C) 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. (D) Bar histogram representing percentage of long-term potentiation (LTP) during the 40 min after TBS in the same groups as described in (B). HFD impaired LTP in Veh-treated juveniles, whereas prior with RU treatment in HFD fed animals restored LTP [t(14) = 3.6, ***P = 0.005]. Similarly, RU also impaired the induction of LTP in CD animals [t(2) = 5.0, P = 0.001].