Table 1.

Immunoreactive cells in the parvicellular subnuclei of the PVN of the hypothalamus in the female rat

Group treatment	ERβ	OT	ERβ and OT	Colocalized, %
				ERβ	OT
OVX	114.50 ± 45.08	66.87 ± 18.22	33.13 ± 8.53	28.93	49.54
OVX+E	141.67 ± 31.26	54.25 ± 16.62	29.33 ± 3.62	20.70	54.06

Values represent mean (±SD) number of cells counted within a 40-μm section representative of bregma levels −1.78 to −2.00 (n = 4/group). No significant differences were found between groups.