Table 2.
Total numbers of labeled neurons counted bilaterally within infected areas of the midbrain, diencephalon, and cortex
| Brain Area | Intermediate Group |
Late Group | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C38 | C39 | C51 | C36 | C37 | |
| Midbrain | |||||
| Lateral periaqueductal gray | 83 | 458 | 227 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Ventrolateral periaqueductal gray | 6 | 56 | 90 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Dorsal periaqueductal gray | 1 | 48 | 111 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Dorsolateral periaqueductal gray | 0 | 2 | 6 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Mesencephalic reticular nucleus | 35 | 645 | 969 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Pedunculopontine nucleus | 9 | 215 | 99 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Cuneiform nucleus | 5 | 56 | 14 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Nucleus locus coeruleus | 5 | 44 | 19 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Edinger-Westphal nucleus | 6 | 59 | 17 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Red nucleus | 1 | 51 | 204 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Intermediate layer of the superior colliculus | 0 | 29 | 20 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Deep layer of the superior colliculus | 0 | 33 | 13 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Central nucleus of the inferior colliculus | 0 | 3 | 4 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Nucleus of the posterior commissure | 0 | 13 | 14 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Dorsal nucleus of the lateral lemniscus | 0 | 0 | 9 | ✓ | ✓ |
| External nucleus of the inferior colliculus | 0 | 0 | 0 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Dorsal raphe nucleus | 0 | 0 | 0 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Substantia nigra pars compacta | 0 | 0 | 0 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Substantia nigra pars reticulata | 0 | 0 | 0 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Diencephalon and telencephalon | |||||
| Perifornical area | 0 | 108 | 148 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus | 0 | 17 | 34 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Central lateral nucleus of the thalamus | 0 | 18 | 17 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Ventrolateral nucleus of the thalamus | 0 | 20 | 23 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus | 0 | 5 | 0 | ✓ | ✓ |
| Central nucleus of the amygdala | 0 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Insular cortex | 0 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Pericruciate cortex | 0 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Prefrontal cortex | 0 | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |