Figure 2

Mean body weight and percentage weight gain during adolescence. Points indicate mean body weight of rats between an age of PND 30 to PND 90 (left scale). Bars indicate the percentaged weight gain in relation to previous body weight (right scale). The highest weight gain was observed during pubertal development, with a peak just shortly before puberty onset from pd 30 to 40. Asterisks (*) indicate significant differences at p-levels of p ≤ 0.05. Data are expressed as mean ± SEM.