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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Dec 6.
Published in final edited form as: Neuroscience. 2009 Aug 8;164(2):351–359. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2009.08.009

Table 1.

Brain regions analyzed for Fos-immunoreactivity following exposure to restricted feeding schedules in GHSR KO and WT mice or repeated injections of ghrelin or saline.

Brain Region Location with respect to Bregma according to Franklin and Paxinos (1997)
Oval nucleus of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis (BNSTov) 0.40–0mm anterior
Suprachiasmatic nucleus (SCN) 0.3–0.7mm posterior
Paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus (PVN) 0.7–1.2mm posterior
Dorsomedial nucleus of the hypothalamus (DMH) 1.4–2.0mm posterior
Ventromedial nucleus of the hypothalamus (VMH) 1.4–2.0mm posterior
Arcuate nucleus (ARC) 1.4–2.0mm posterior
Lateral Hypothalamus (LH) 1.0–2.0mm posterior