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Published in final edited form as: Obesity (Silver Spring). 2009 Oct 22;18(4):682–689. doi: 10.1038/oby.2009.345

Table 3.

Mean ± s.e.m. (g) percent body mass change before and after food deprivation of hamsters bearing bilateral paraventricular nucleus lesions (PVNx) or sham lesions that had sham adrenal demedullation (ADMEDx) or ADMEDx in experiment 4

	Ad libitum fed				Food deprived
	Sham PVHx		PVHx		Sham PVHx		PVHx
	Sham		Sham		Sham		Sham
	ADMEDx	ADMEDx	ADMEDx	ADMEDx	ADMEDx	ADMEDx	ADMEDx	ADMEDx
Body mass Δ before food deprivation	3.45 ± 2.72^a	3.32 ± 1.57^a	11.81 ± 1.85^b	8.59 ± 0.45^b	0.53 ± 2.00^a	3.69 ± 1.28^a	8.34 ± 1.71^b	8.74 ± 1.57^b
Body mass Δ after food deprivation	2.71 ± 2.39^a	4.14 ± 1.40^a	14.88 ± 2.54^b	14.59 ± 1.84^b	−18.48 ± 1.64^a,*	−15.56 ± 3.80^a,*	−16.52 ± 1.24^a,*	−15.02 ± 2.15^a,*

Non shared letters (a,b,c) indicate statistically significant differences (P < 0.05). Asterisk denotes statistical significance (P < 0.05) between nonfood and food-deprived representative counterparts.