“…These results suggest some long-lasting consequences of LPS treatment, but the effect of endotoxin insult was less complex than in other studies. While the suppressive effect of LPS on weight gain [ 31 , 90 , [100] , [101] , [102] , [103] , [104] ] and locomotor activity [ 31 , 34 , 101 , [105] , [106] , [107] , [108] , [109] , [110] , [111] ] is well known, the depressive effect of LPS on social exploration of rats described by many authors [ 31 , 100 , 101 , 111 ] was not observed in our study.…”