Table 4.

Brain mRNA levels normalized to g3pdh in food deprived and fed females.

Gene	Food Deprived	Fed	T stat	P value
gnrh1	0.0203 ± 0.00532	0.0397 ± 0.0124	4.0596	0.0011
gnrh2	0.00610 ± 0.00204	0.00470 ± 0.00196	1.405	0.182
gnrh3	0.0164 ± 0.0143	0.0118 ± 0.00485	0.853	0.574
gnrhr1	0.0187 ± 0.0155	0.0132 ± 0.00669	0.905	0.798
gnrhr2	0.0143 ± 0.0153	0.00998 ± 0.00568	0.751	0.879
hcrt	0.0110 ± 0.0154	0.00532 ± 0.00272	1.026	0.322
npy	0.124 ± 0.0323	0.116 ± 0.0185	0.639	0.279
npyry8b	0.0158 ± 0.0133	0.0111 ± 0.00389	0.974	0.5737
npyry8c	0.0391 ± 0.0367	0.0431 ± 0.0680	0.147	0.4418
cck	0.0474 ± 0.0271	0.0343 ± 0.00385	1.358	0.463
mch	0.0375 ± 0.0176	0.0377 ± 0.0170	0.0263	0.979
pacap	0.0505 ± 0.00532	0.0481 ± 0.00596	0.835	0.418
pomc	0.0206 ± 0.0285	0.0101 ± 0.00522	1.027	0.574

Values reported as mean± SD; N = 8. Two-tailed t-test was used for gnrh2, hcrt, mch, and pacap. Mann-Whitney test was used for gnrh1, gnrh3, gnrhr1, gnrhr2, npy, npyry8b, npyry8c, cck, pomc (p values <0.05 in bold)