Fig. 5.
LBN Alters Neuronal Activity after Cocaine in Reward- and Stress-Related Regions: A) Sampled regions: Regions for which Fos immunoreactivity are shown are represented in a sagittal view. NAcSh: nucleus accumbens shell, NAcC: nucleus accumbens core, MHb: medial habenula, LHb: lateral habenula, CeA: amygdala central nucleus, BLA: basolateral amygdala. Fos expression in B) Accumbens: Nucleus accumbens shell and core, C) Amygdala: Central and basolateral amygdala, and D) Epithalamus: Medial and lateral habenula is shown, along with representative photomicrographs from control and LBN rats. Density of Fos + cells (mean ± SEM Fos/mm2) is shown for each sampled brain region in control (Ctrl: black bars) and LBN rats (orange bars). In panels B-D, bars represent control (black) and LBN (orange) group means ± SEM, and dots represent data from individual rats. *p < .05. (For interpretation of the references to color in this figure legend, the reader is referred to the Web version of this article.)