When analyzed, a trend towards increased astrocytic surface area in male and female LBN subjects was observed, but this trend did not reach statistical significance, [F(1,12) = 4.20, p = .063] ( Fig. 2 D).
← all excerpts
Early resource scarcity causes cortical astrocyte enlargement and sex-specific changes in the orbitofrontal cortex transcriptome in adult rats.
2
0.0630
0.0630
The sentences
First, an independent samples t -test was performed to see if there were significant differences between cortical layers in any of the morphological or PSD-95 related parameters, as previous literature demonstrated that there may be significant heterogeneity in morphometric properties of astrocytes between layers ( Langfelder and Horvath, 2008 ).