Table 2.

Average ± SD of total activity counts/1000, minutes resting and number of rest periods for the each of the 3 hours after each treatment – last 3 hours of the active period for the BXD40f on an ID diet.

	1^st hour			2^nd hour			3^rd hour
Treatment	Activity/1000	Mins rest	# rest periods	Activity/1000	Mins rest	# rest periods	Activity/1000	Mins rest	# rest periods
Saline	3.8 ±1.1	0.0 ± 0	0.0 ± 0	2.5 ± 2.2	4.3 ±5.7	0.4 ± 0.5	1.4 ± 1.6	11.1 ± 9.4	1.4 ± 1.1
12.5 mg L-dopa	1.6 ±1.1^****	7.7 ± 8.3 ^*	1.0 ± 1.0 ^*	1.9 ± 1.2	3.4 ± 4.7	0.6 ± 0.8	1.7 ±1.5	12.0 ± 9.8	1.0 ± 0.8
25.0 mg L-dopa	1.5 ± 1.0^***	3.4 ±4.7^*	0.4 ± 0.5^*	0.6 ± 0.2^*	6.0 ± 10.0	0.6 ± 1.0	0.9 ± 0.7	10.3 ± 8.3	1.3 ± 0.8
0.5 mg Quin	1.2 ± 0.8^****	18.9 ± 16.0^**	1.6 ± 1.1^***	1.6 ±1.2	12.0 ± 9.8	1.4 ± 1.0^*	1.7 ± 1.2	9.4 ± 12.0	0.7 ± 1.0
1.0 mg Quin	0.9 ± 0.7^****	18.9 ± 15.3^**	1.6 ± 1.1^**	0.5 ± 0.2^*	16.3 ± 9.6^*	1.7 ± 1.0^*	1.0 ± 0.5	11.1 ± 4.1	1.3 ± 0.5

Significance for within subject t test compared to saline

^****

p<0.001

^***

p< 0.005

^**

p< 0.01

p< 0.05

Activity counts: Sum for each animal of number of gross body movements in each 6-minute period detected by the G2 E-Mitter telemetry. Average and SD total activity determined for 6 animals on iron-sufficient diet and 7 on iron-deficient diet.