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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Stress. 2020 Mar 4;23(4):457–465. doi: 10.1080/10253890.2020.1733962

Figure 5.

Figure 5.

Levels of hypothalamic oxytocin (OT) mRNA and plasma OT at baseline and after 20 minutes of restraint stress in pair- versus single-housed male mice exposed to chronic variable stress (CVS) or control conditions. Panels a and b show mean ± SEM arbitrary density units (ADUs) calculated from in situ hybridization autoradiograms of OT mRNA within the paraventricular nucleus (PVN) (a) and supraoptic nucleus (SON) (b). Panel c shows mean ± SEM plasma OT levels in pair- versus single-housed mice. *= p<0.05 for stressed versus nonstressed control single-housed males. Numbers within each bar indicate the number of animals used for each group.