Fig. 1

Neonatal MSG treatment effects on NCX1-3 protein expression in the entorhinal cortex (left) and hippocampus (right) at PD60. Upper panels a and c correspond to representative images of western blots for each analysed protein in control (CTL) and MSG-treated rats (MSG). Lower panels b and d correspond to graphic representations of the relative expression of each NCX protein with respect to β-actin expression. The colourless bars correspond to the CTL group, and the dark bar to the MSG group. Values represent the mean ± SDM from five animal samples for each cerebral region and group analysed in triplicate. Statistically different at *p < 0.05 and **p < 0.01 for the MSG compared to the CTL group using a Student’s t-test