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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Horm Behav. 2018 Feb 3;99:14–24. doi: 10.1016/j.yhbeh.2018.01.006

Table 1.

Vasopressin and oxytocin immunoreactive(-ir) cell numbers.

#Peptide-ir Cells
Brain Region Peptide PND15 PND30 PND45 PND60
AH Vasopressin 29.60 ± 5.12 29.80 ± 5.36 28.00 ± 4.72 24.18 ± 3.98
BSTm Vasopressin 13.10 ± 1.20 14.10 ± 2.51 10.90 ± 1.91 11.18 ± 1.44
BSTm Oxytocin 11.40 ± 1.66 8.20 ± 1.48 9.20 ± 2.04 8.09 ± 1.39

Results are expressed as the mean ± SEM. The total number of peptidergic cells within a cell group did not differ between age groups. BSTm, medial bed nucleus of the stria terminalis; AH, anterior hypothalamus.