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Published in final edited form as: Horm Behav. 2013 Sep 5;64(4):10.1016/j.yhbeh.2013.08.016. doi: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2013.08.016

Table 1.

Fos and oxytocin expression during stimulus exposures (Experiment 1)

		BNSTpm	BNSTpi	MPOA	MeA	MeP	PVH
Fos+
	Male	171.6 ± 16.8^a	154.8 ± 17.5^a	229.7 ± 8.5^a	327.3 ± 11.2^a	307.4 ± 15.9^a	188.1 ± 13.5^a
	Female	149.3 ± 12.0^a	102.6 ± 8.9^b	190.7 ± 7.7^b	296.8 ± 15.0^a,b	223.8 ± 12.1^b	183.1 ± 15.0^a
	Clean	87.6 ± 11.0^b	75.8 ± 9.1^b	172.9 ± 7.7^b	258.0 ± 20.0^b	180.6 ± 15.8^b	201.5 ± 21.2^a
OT+
	Male	2.1 ± 0.8	1.2 ± 0.3	4.5 ± 1.1	4.8 ± 0.8	0.0 ± 0.0	117.0 ± 6.0
	Female	2.8 ± 1.3	0.8 ± 0.3	3.2 ± 0.5	4.9 ± 1.1	0.5 ± 0.2	127.6 ± 9.0
	Clean	0.8 ± 0.2	0.7 ± 0.3	4.1 ± 0.5	5.7 ± 0.8	0.4 ± 0.1	139.9 ± 10.5

Mean (± SEM) number of Fos-positive (Fos+) and oxytocin-positive (OT+) cells per mm², within each brain area (see Methods section for a detailed description of cell counting protocol). Dissimilar letters within a specific brain area indicate non-homologous means (Tukey’s HSD post-hoc comparisons following significant ANOVA). BNSTpm, posteromedial subdivision of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis; BNSTpi, posterointermediate subdivision of the bed nucleus of the stria terminalis; MPOA, medial preoptic area; MeA, anterior division of the medial amygdala; MeP, posterior division of the medial amygdala; PVH, paraventricular nucleus of the hypothalamus.