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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Dec 27.
Published in final edited form as: Neuroscience. 2012 Oct 4;227:211–222. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2012.09.067

Table 1.

CB1 immunoreactivity in individual brain region. ++++, high expression; +, low expression; ±, punctate pattern rather than fine fiber pattern. For abbreviations, see list of abbreviations.

Brain region CB1 C-terminal
CB1 N-terminal
SAL LPS SAL LPS
Cortex ++++ ++++ ++++ ++++
LS + + ± ±
ACB
   Core + + ± ±
   Shell + + ± ±
BNST
   Dorsal part + + +++ ++
   Ventral part + ± ++ ++
MPA ± ± - -
MnPO - ± - -
VMPO - - - -
Amygdala
   CeC + + ± ±
   BLA ++++ ++++ ++++ ++++
   BMA +++ +++ +++ +++
   ACo +++ +++ ++ ++
Hippocampus
   CA1 ++++ +++ ++++ +++
   CA3 ++++ +++ ++++ +++
   DG ++++ ++++ ++++ ++++
Thalamus
   PVT - - ± -
Hypothalamus
   PVN - - ± ±
   PeV - - ± ±
   SON ± ± - -
   DMH - - - -
   LH ± ± ± ±
   VMH - - - -
   ARC - - - -
PAG - - - -
SN ++++ ++++ ++++ ++++
NTS - - - -
DMN - - - -
12N + + ± ±
CVOs
   OVLT - - - -
   SFO - - - -
   ME - - - -
   AP - - - -