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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Sep 10.
Published in final edited form as: Brain Res. 2010 Jul 15;1351:150–164. doi: 10.1016/j.brainres.2010.07.024

Table 1.

Rat brain structures showing Fos immunoreactivity following icv injection of vehicle, sst2 agonist or ODT8-SST. Brain regions that do not express Fos immunoreactivity are omitted from the table.

Brain structure Density
vehicle sst2 agonist ODT8-
SST
(n=5) (n=6) (n=6)
Forebrain Piriform cortex + ++ +
Insular cortex ++
Entorhinal cortex + ++ +
Cingulate cortex + +
Somatomotor cortex + ++ + ~ ++
Lateral septum +
Striatum ++
other cortical areas + ++ +
Anterior cortical amygdaloid nucleus + +
Medial amygdaloid nucleus + + +
Central amygdaloid nucleus
Basolateral amygdaloid nucleus +++ ++

Hypothalamus Lateral preoptic area − ~ + +
Suprachiasmatic nucleus (Cap) + + +
Supraoptic nucleus ++++ +++
Accessory neurosecretory nuclei + +
Paraventricular nucleus
 Parvicellular anterior
 Parvicellular medial − ~ +
 Ventral
 Magnocellular medial +++ ++
 Magnocellular lateral +++ ++
 Posterior − ~ +
Medial hypothalamic area + +
Dorsomedial hypothalamic nucleus + ++
Arcuate nucleus ++
Ventral tuberomammillary nucleus +++ +
Premamillary nucleus, ventral part ++ ++

Thalamus Paraventricular thalamic nucleus, anterior part + +
Parasubthalamic nucleus ++

Cerebellum Cerebellar cortex ++ +

Midbrain Periaqueductal Gray + + − ~ +
Superior and inferior colliculi ++ ++ +

Pons Pontine nuclei ++ ++ +
External subnucleus of lateral parabrachial nucleus ++ ~ +++ +

Medulla Raphe pallidus + − ~ +
Area postrema +
Lateral reticular nucleus + − ~ +
Medullary reticular nucleus, dorsal part ++ +
Spinal trigeminal nucleus, superficial layer +++ ++
Inferior olivary nucleus ++ +

Density: “+” approximately 1–4 cells, “++” 5–10, “+++” 10–20 and “++++” >20 immunoreactive cells in a 100 µm×100 μm area of an ocular grid when the objective was 10×.