Table 1.

General features of NFAT family members and their distribution in the brain.

NFAT member	Alternative name(s)	Number of variants	Regulated by	CNS distribution
NFAT1	NFATc2 and NFATp	8	Ca2+/Calcineurin	oflactory bulb, neuronal cell line
NFAT2	NFATc1 and NFATc	8	Ca2+/Calcineurin	hypothalamus, hippocampus, cerebellum, olfactory bulb, and frontal cortex
NFAT3	NFATc4	24	Ca2+/Calcineurin	olfactory bulb, cerebellum, and certain regions of the cortex
NFAT4	NFATc3 and NFATx	6	Ca2+/Calcineurin	hippocampus, retinal ganglion cells
NFAT5	TonEBP and OREBP	16	Osmotic stress	cerebral cortex, hippocampus, hypothalamus, substantia nigra, cerebellum, medulla oblongata