Correction: Maternal separation blunted spatial memory formation independent of peripheral and hippocampal insulin content in young adult male rats.

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Maternal separation blunted spatial memory formation independent of peripheral and hippocampal insulin content in young adult male rats.

This study explores the effects of maternal separation as a chronic early life stress (ELS) on pancreatic islets insulin content and secretion, and their potential relationship with the hippocampus insulin content and spatial memory in young adulthood. Male rat offspring were divided into two groups: stress (STR) and non-stress (non-STR) groups. The animals of the STR group were separated from their mothers during postnatal days (PND) 1 to 21.