TABLE 2.
Effect of CPS + Mel on the acrophase (clock time hours) of maternal circadian rhythms measured telemetrically (Mean ± SEM).
| LD (n = 5)& |
CPS + Mel (n = 5) |
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| GW 1 | GW 2 | GW3 | GW 1 | GW 2 | GW 3 | |
| Activity | 00.58 ± 0.37 | 01.25 ± 0.44 | 03.85 ± 0.48* | 00.56 ± 0.24 | 02.94 ± 0.11*# | – |
| Temperature | 23.60 ± 0.27 | 00.42 ± 0.51 | 02.75 ± 0.36* | 01.80 ± 0.22# | 04.22 ± 0.8*# | – |
| Heart rate | 23.44 ± 0.28 | 00.77 ± 0.41 | 03.11 ± 0.42* | 24.17 ± 0.17# | 03.68 ± 0.21*# | – |
LD, mothers under light-dark cycle 12/12; GW, gestational week; SEM, standard error of the mean. *Different from the first week of gestation (P < 0.05, two ways ANOVA, and Tukey).
#Different from LD. &Data from LD mothers has already been published (Mendez et al., 2016).