. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jun 13.

Published in final edited form as: Endocrinology. 2010 Apr 6;151(6):2723–2735. doi: 10.1210/en.2010-0007

Table 1. Percent number of nNOS neurons immunoreactive for P-nNOS in diestrus (Di) and proestrus (Pro) rats.

	NDB	MEPO/ov	AVP
Di 16h	24.1 ± 5.2	25.3 ± 3.7	38.4 ± 9.9
Pro 16h	58.4 ± 8.6^**	46.1 ± 3.2^**	77.7 ± 12.1^*

Four animals were used for counting in both stages of the estrous cycle; per animal, an average of 54 ± 6 nNOS-immunoreactive neurons were considered in the nucleus of the diagonal band (NDB), 88 ± 8 in the organ of the median preoptic nucleus (MEPO) at the vascular organ of the lamina terminalis (ov), 30 ± 3 in the anteroventral preoptic nucleus (AVP).

^**

p < 0.01,

p < 0.05, t-test, Pro 16h vs. Di 16h.