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. 2020 Nov 16;10:19917. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-77085-z

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Quantitation of neurotransmitters in the hippocampus of CUMS rats intravenously administrated with dose gradients. Samples of hippocampus were collected after sacrifice of the rats (at the time point shown in Fig. 1) and immediately transferred to liquid nitrogen. Neurotransmitters in the hippocampus of CUMS rats after sacrifice were quantified by HPLC–ESI–MS/MS (Thermo Fisher Scientific, MA, USA). The quantified neurotransmitters included dopamine (a), norepinephrine (b), dihydroxy-phenyl acetic acid (c), 3-methoxytyramine (d), homovanillic acid (e), gama-aminobyteric acid (f), tryptophan (g), serotonin (h), 5-hydroxyindole acetic acid (i), kynurenine (j), 3-hydroxykynurenine (k), 3-hydroxyanthranilic acid (l), and melatonin (m). A nonparametric t-test was applied to determine the statistical significance of differences between groups. *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01, and ***P < 0.001, ****P < 0.0001.