Table 1

Adrenal and thymus weights of animals receiving saline (SAL) or (+)-methamphetamine (MA) in Experiment 1 or weights from control animals or animals forced to swim (FS) in Experiment 2 (Mean ± SEM)
Tissue
 Treatment
 1 h
 7 h
 24 h
 72 h
Adrenal Gland (% Body Weight)
 SAL
 0.186 ± 0.007
 0.214 ± 0.007
 0.194 ± 0.011
 0.151 ± 0.007

MA
 0.153 ± 0.008
 0.187 ± 0.016
 0.196 ± 0.014
 0.168 ± 0.007

Control
 0.130 ± 0.014
 0.194 ± 0.015
 0.182 ± 0.014
 -

FS
 0.151 ± 0.006
 0.182 ± 0.011
 0.188 ± 0.016
 -
Thymus (% Body Weight)
 SAL
 2.314 ± 0.084
 2.263 ± 0.175
 1.481 ± 0.108
 1.361 ± 0.076

MA*
 1.829 ± 0.125
 2.041 ± 0.202
 1.348 ± 0.084
 0.9441 ± 0.071

Control
 1.786 ± 0.212
 2.174 ± 0.123
 1.640 ± 0.100
 -

FS
 1.609 ± 0.129
 2.057 ± 0.159
 1.87 ± 0.075
 -

*p < 0.05 vs SAL

Herring et al. BMC Neuroscience 2008 9:49   doi:10.1186/1471-2202-9-49