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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Comp Neurol. 2010 Sep 1;518(17):3557–3569. doi: 10.1002/cne.22414

Table 4.

Few CTb-labeled corneal afferents contained both CGRP and VGluT2 immunoreactivity *

Region CGRP-ir + VGluT2-ir CGRP-ir VGluT2-ir Neither
Caudal – Vc/C1 2 (1%) 5 (3%) 7 (4%) 161 (92%)
Rostral – Vi/Vc 7 (2%) 32 (9%) 39 (11%) 272 (78%)
*

Each column in the table indicates the raw number of varicosities in that category for each region. Percentages indicate the breakdown of CTb-labeled varicosities within that region. Total number of CTb-labeled varicosities were 175 (caudal) and 350 (rostral) from 7 animals. There was a higher proportion of CGRP-containing to total CTb-labeled varicosities rostrally than caudally (z = 2.359, P = 0.018). We found the same was true for VGluT2-containing varicosities (z = 2.523, P = 0.018). There was no difference in the proportion of CTb-labeled varicosities that contained both CGRP and VGluT2 in rostral Vi/Vc as compared to caudal Vc/C1 (z = 0.482; P = 0.630).