Table 1.

Brain structures and their mean areas quantified for Fos-ir in rats with noninflated and inflated SVC-RAJ balloons

Brain structure	Abbreviations*	Non-inflated		Inflated
		mm2	s.e.m	mm2	s.e.m.
Organum vasculosum of the lamina terminalis	OVLT	0.084	0.007	0.075	0.008
Subfornical organ	SFO	0.238	0.019	0.254	0.021
Supraoptic nucleus	SON	0.041	0.003	0.055	0.005
Magnocellular paraventricular nucleus	mPVN	0.068	0.003	0.062	0.003
Parvocellular paraventricular nucleus	pPVN	0.153	0.007	0.123	0.011
Area postrema	AP	0.170	0.012	0.178	0.015
Lateral parabrachial nucleus	LPBN	0.080	0.003	0.086	0.007
Medial nucleus of the solitary tract	mNTS	0.157	0.001	0.175	0.008
Caudal ventrolateral medulla	CVLM	0.022	0.003	0.035	0.003

^*Abbreviations used in the text and figures. All values are group means and the standard error of the mean (s.e.m.) of the areas expressed in mm² under both conditions for each site. There is no overall significant difference between the areas analysed for each of the two conditions.