Figure 1.
CUS produces significant effects on locomotor activity. (A) CUS produced a significant stress (F1,42 =4.83, p<0.05) and genotype effect (F1,42 =4.22, p<0.05) on locomotor activity in females. The female stressed BDNF KOs were significant hypoactivity compared to stressed CTLs and nonstressed BDNF KOs (*p<0.05). (B) CUS produced a significant stress effect (F1,30 =7.75, p<0.01) on locomotor activity in males. Male BDNF KO mice were hyperactive compared to CTL mice at baseline (*p<0.05). After CUS, male mice (*p<0.05) were significantly less active than their nonstressed cohorts while no significant effect was observed in nonstressed KOs compared to stressed KOs (p>0.05).