Sex comparisons within electrophysiological assessments
| Saline | Morphine | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Experiment | Male | Female | p value | Male | Female | p value |
| Spontaneously firing light (Fig. 1) | 0.34 ± 0.22 (5) | 0.27 ± 0.13 (10) | 0.91 | 1.41 ± 1.07 (4) | 1.67 ± 0.31 (9) | 0.75 |
| Spontaneously firing dark (Fig. 1) | 1.77 ± 0.24 (4) | 1.62 ± 0.51 (10) | 0.85 | 2.22 ± 0.59 (3) | 1.83 ± 0.50 (11) | 0.71 |
| IME light 100 pA (Fig. 2) | 7.88 ± 1.67 (8) | 9.92 ± 2.11 (13) | 0.50 | 16.87 ± 1.86 (15) | 11.00 ± 4.71 (4) | 0.19 |
| IME dark 100 pA (Fig. 3) | 25.2 ± 4.76 (5) | 20.35 ± 1.33 (14) | 0.19 | 17.28 ± 2.59 (7) | 21.00 ± 0.82 (14) | 0.10 |
| AMPA/NMDA ratios light (Fig. 4) | 0.77 ± 0.05 (4) | 0.85 ± 0.11 (5) | 0.55 | 1.46 ± 0.41 (3) | 1.27 ± 0.12 (5) | 0.59 |
| AMPA/NMDA ratios dark (Fig. 4) | 1.43 ± 0.23 (5) | 1.05 ± 0.08 (6) | 0.14 | 1.01 ± 0.26 (3) | 1.19 ± 0.14 (8) | 0.75 |
Mean ± SEM; number of cells (n); Student’s t-test was used for statistical measures.