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. 2019 Sep 12;9:225. doi: 10.1038/s41398-019-0559-6

Fig. 3. DTI showed differences in white matter microstructure in brains of TALLYHO/JngJ (TH) mice compared to the control strain (SWR/J).

Fig. 3

a The fractional anisotropy (FA) was increased in the corpus callosum (CC) (0.547 ± 0.008 vs. 0.478 ± 0.01, n = 9 per strain, p = 3.7E-05) and decreased in the dorsomedial striatum (DMS) (0.18 ± 0.01 vs. 0.20 ± 0.01, n = 9 per strain, p = 0.01) and superior cerebellar peduncle (SCP) (0.28 ± 0.02 vs. 0.36 ± 0.01, n = 9 per strain, p = 0.003) of TH mice. No differences were observed in the orbitofrontal cortex (OFC), anterior cingulate cortex (ACC), and nucleus accumbens (NAcc). b The same three brain regions showed a decrease in the mean diffusivity (MD) in TH mice: CC (7.44E-04 ± 5.56E-06 vs. 7.78E-04 ± 1.21E-05, n = 9 per strain, p = 0.03), DMS (7.17E-04 ± 1.10E-05 vs. 7.58E-04 ± 1.18E-05, n = 9 per strain, p = 0.02) and SCP (6.50E-04 ± 2.89E-05 vs. 7.44E-04 ± 1.30E-05, n = 9 per strain, p = 0.01). c, d Compulsivity-like behavior as shown by the spontaneous alternation is positively correlated to the FA in DMS and SCP (r = 0.734, n = 18, p = 0.002 and r = 0.548, n = 18, p = 0.02, respectively)