TABLE 1.
Relative density of fluorescein-IR in the central nervous system of F-ghrelin injected mice1
| Hippocampus and septum | |
| Ammon’s horn, CA1 | + |
| Ammon’s horn, CA2 | + |
| Ammon’s horn, CA3 | + |
| Lateral septal nucleus -LS | + |
| Thalamus | |
| Paraventricular thalamic nucleus –PV | ++ |
| Hypothalamus | |
| Anterior hypothalamic area –LHA | + |
| Arcuate hypothalamic nucleus –ARC | +++ |
| Dorsomedial nucleus –DMH | + |
| Paraventricular nucleus –PVH | ++ |
| Periventricular hypothalamic nucleus –Pe | ++ |
| Premamillary nucleus, ventral –PMV | ++ |
| Supramammillary nucleus –SuM | + |
| Suprachiasmatic nucleus –SCh | +/− |
| Ventromedial nucleus –VMH | +++ |
| Ventromedial preoptic nucleus –VMPO | +++ |
| Subfornical organ –SFO | ++ |
| Midbrain, pons, and medulla oblongata | |
| Area postrema –AP | ++ |
| Dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus –DMNV | + |
| Dorsal raphe nucleus –DR | ++ |
| Dorsal tegmental nucleus –DTg | ++ |
| Edinger Westphal nucleus –EW | +/− |
| Laterodorsal tegmental nucleus –LDTg | ++ |
| Locus coeruleus –LoC | ++ |
| Magnocellular nucleus of the posterior commissure –MCPC | +/− |
| Nucleus ambiguous –Amb | +/− |
| Nucleus of the solitary tract –NTS | ++ |
| Substantia nigra –SN | +/− |
| Ventral tegmental area –VTA | + |
1
Qualitative estimates of fluorescein-IR were made by considering both signal strength and the number of labeled cells: +++, high density; ++, moderate density; +, low density; +/−, inconsistent visualization.