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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Jun 4.
Published in final edited form as: Neuroscience. 2015 Mar 20;295:58–71. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2015.03.025

Figure 4.

Figure 4

Effects of a history of food restriction (FR), with and without episodic intake of 10% sucrose, on AMPA receptor GluA1, GluA2 and GluA3 abundance in nucleus accumbens whole cell homogenate. Previously FR and control ad libitum fed (AL) subjects were either taken from the home cage, or had 15-min access to 10% sucrose or tap water prior to brain harvesting. Following densitometry, intensities of bands corresponding to the target AMPA receptor protein for each sample were divided by the intensities of the corresponding α-tubulin bands. Results (mean ± s.e.m.) are expressed in comparison to the normalized control, defined as the AL group with a history of episodic access to tap water and a terminal treatment of 15-min access to tap water. n=15 per group, with 3 NAc pooled per tube for fractionation.