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. 2021 Jun 29;46(12):2170–2179. doi: 10.1038/s41386-021-01056-9

Fig. 3. Corticosterone persistently disrupts cognition in APP transgenic rats.

Fig. 3

In a longitudinal study design (A, D), wild-type (WT) and transgenic (TG) rats received single daily s.c. injections of CORT (10 mg/kg) for 3 days. In first group of animals, performance of WT (B) and TG (C) rats was tested in a relatively simple novel object recognition task on Day-14 before CORT treatment and 1 Day after the last CORT injection. To avoid potential confounds of multiple repeated behavioural testing in the NOR task, another group of animals was tested on Days 1 and 21. After initial memory disruption on Day 1, WT animals (E) significantly improved DI on Day 21. In contrast, TG rats (F) didn’t show any recovery of performance. Summary of discrimination index (DI) for individuals and groups are in left and right hand panels, respectively. The # symbol stands for a statistical comparison of DI with the hypothetical no-bias value of 0.5 on the same day (one sample t test) whereas an * indicates a comparison between different days (paired t test). One symbol, p < 0.05; two symbols, p < 0.01; three symbols, p < 0.001. Values are mean ± S.E.M. % of DI.