. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 May 15.

Published in final edited form as: Gen Comp Endocrinol. 2010 Feb 6;167(1):18–26. doi: 10.1016/j.ygcen.2010.02.002

Table 1.

Number (range) and weight (mean ± standard error of the mean) of punches from the 13 different brain regions.

	Number of punches (range)	Weight (mg) mean ± SEM	Aromatase expression
X	2 – 6	5.42 ± 0.13	0
LMAN	2 – 6	5.53 ± 0.21	0
MMAN	2 – 6	4.78 ± 0.11	+
mPOA	4 – 6	4.74 ± 0.07	++
VMN	4 – 6	4.61 ± 0.11	++
HP	8	4.41 ± 0.08	+++
LatNP	6	5.05 ± 0.11	0
OL	8 – 10	5.86 ± 0.10	0
NCM	8	5.21 ± 0.17	+++
HVC	4 – 8	4.18 ± 0.07	F
TnA	6	3.75 ± 0.11	++
RA	6 – 8	3.70 ± 0.08	F
Cb	8 – 10	5.06 ± 0.08	+

Note: We indicated the level of aromatase expression in the different brain regions (Saldanha et al., 2000), from no aromatase-immunoreactive cells (0) to high level of immunopositive cells (+++). While aromatase cell bodies are not observed in some regions, these regions present aromatase-immunoreactive fibers (F; Peteron et al., 2005)