Figure 6From: Chronic airway-induced allergy in mice modifies gene expression in the brain toward insulin resistance and inflammatory responses Allergy decreases the insulin receptor phosphorylation in the mouse brain. The levels of phosphorylated insulin receptor (p-IR) were significantly reduced in the hippocampus of allergic mice compared to controls. The data were analyzed using Student’s t-test. The boxplot shows the first two quartiles with the median, and the whiskers indicate the third and fourth quartiles (n = 16 for the allergic group and n = 17 for the control group). t-IR, total insulin receptor. The images below the graph show the immunoblotting of p-IR. Asterisk, p < 0.05, ° indicates outliers. Back to article page