Results
The difference in escape latency (in the Morris water maze) between control and late MSD offspring on trial day 1
What is no difference?
The day on which offspring rats are first used in the experimental tests
What is PND 21?
The percent sucrose in the water of the sucrose preference experiment
What is 1%
The cell that is the primary immune cell for the nervous system
What is microglia
The trimester of pregnancy in which the effects of sleep deprivation have the greatest impact on offspring
What is the third trimester?
The size difference between the dentate gyrus and granular cell layer in control vs MSD offspring
What is no size difference?
The two stains used to measure neurogenesis in this study
what is BrdU and DCX
The type of rat that is used
What are Wistar rats?
The chemical messengers that microglia emit to send messages to other immune cells
What are cytokines?
The two places where neurogenesis occurs in the hippocampus and are thus studied in this article
What is the dentate gyrus and granular cell layer?
The two microglia cell types that there were more of in MSD offspring
Cell type II and Cell type III
The amount of time the MSD rats were sleep deprived
What is 72 hours?
The amount of time the mice were deprived of food/water before the sucrose preference experiment
What is 20 hours?
The stain used to mark microglia
What is Iba1?
The anti-inflammatory cytokine that was measured in this paper
What is IL-10?
The 4 cytokines that this paper tests for
What is: TNFš¯›¼, IL-1B, IL-6, IL-10?
The gestational days when sleep deprivation occurs for early MSD, middle MSD, and late MSD
What is gestational day 4, 9, and 18?
The city in China from where this article comes from.
What is Chengdu?
The cell type of the most activated microglia
What is cell type III?
The mental illness for which anhedonia is a core clinical feature (according to the paper)
What is schizophrenia?
Of the measured cytokines, this one cytokine at this time point showed a statistically significant finding that did not align with the hypothesis
What is IL-1B on PND21?
The diameters of the platforms for MSD vs control protocol for sleep deprivation
What is 6 cm and 15 cm
The last name of the first author of this paper
What is Zhao?
The name of the morris water maze test when the platform is removed
Spatial probe test
The control in the PCR for cytokines
What is GAPDH?