FIGURE 1.

Effect of maternal deprivation on the animals’ weight at weaning age and on the corticosterone levels in adolescence and adulthood. All results are presented as the mean values ± SEM. Asterisk indicates significant between-group differences of the mean values (Student’s t-test for two independent groups, p < 0.05). (A) The body weight reduction in maternally deprived animals at weaning period, P35 and P60, was reduced compared with the controls (p < 0.05), while on P9 there was no statistically significant difference (p > 0.05). (B) The corticosterone levels were elevated in maternally deprived rats compared with the controls in adolescence (p < 0.05) and adulthood (p < 0.05).