Figure 2.
Effect of culturing rat hypothalamic slices in the absence (control) and presence of either 10ng/ml CNTF or 10ng/ml LIF in the culture medium for 14 days, on the total number of immunohistochemically identified Oxt and Avp neurons in the organotypic cultures (see Table 1 for the numbers of neurons in the individual nuclei under these conditions). Data are expressed as means ± SEM, with n=20 for controls and 18 each for CNTF- and LIF-treated cultures. Statistical differences, shown over columns by asterisks represent p values < 0.01 (compared to control), were calculated by ANOVA, followed by Fischer’s protected LSD test.