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. 2016 Feb 19;11(2):e0149501. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0149501

Table 1. Abbreviations used in the text and in the figures.

Anatomical Area Abbreviation
anterior amygdala AA
anterior hypothalamic area AH
anterior pretectal nuclei APT
anteroventral nucleus AV
bed nucleus of the stria terminalis BST
central amygdala CeA
central lateral nucleus CL
central medial nucleus CM
dorsal terminal nucleus of the accessory optic tract DT
dorsal lateral geniculate nucleus dLG
internal capsule ic
intergeniculate leaflet IGL
lateral dorsal nucleus LD
lateral hypothalamus LHA
lateral habenular nucleus LHb
Lateral posterior nucleus LP
lateral preoptic area LPO
lateral terminal nucleus of the accessory optic tract LT
medial dorsal nucleus MD
medial amygdala MeA
medial geniculate nucleus MG
medial habenular nucleus MHb
medial preoptic area MPO
medial pretectal nuclei MPT
medial terminal nucleus of the accessory optic tract MT
horizontal limb of the diagonal band HDB
nucleus of the optic tract NOT
Olivary pretectal nucleus OPT
periaqueductal gray PAG
posterior commissure Pc
Posterior thalamic nucleus Po
posterior pretectal nuclei PPT
paraventricular hypothalamus PA
retrochiasmatic nucleus RCh
Superior colliculus SC
suprachiasmatic nucleus SCN
supraoptic nucleus SO
stria terminalis st
ventral lateral geniculate nuclei vLG
ventrolateral preoptic area VLPO
ventral posterior thalamic nucleus VP
zona incerta ZI