Table 2.

List of genes analyzed by real time PCR in the brain of adult mice (n = 4–10). Expressed as Fold Change (FC), statistics calculated with the non- parametric Mann-Whitney test (p).

Brain	Males		Females
	FC	p	FC	p
CD11b	2.56	0.006	1.1	>0.9999
CLDN 1	0.63	0.274	0.31	0.038
CLDN 3	0.7	0.662	0.17	0.002
CLDN 5	1.29	0.081	0.6	0.038
GABA	1.16	0.024	0.41	0.571
IL1β	1.65	0.004	1.12	0.556
OCCLN	1.8	0.043	0.97	0.852
veCad	1.55	0.022	0.55	0.145