REAGENT or RESOURCE	SOURCE	IDENTIFIER
Antibodies
Rabbit polyclonal anti-c-fos	Synaptic Systems GmBH	Cat. #226 003
Goat anti-rabbit AlexaFluor-405-IgG	Abcam	ab175652
Rabbit monoclonal anti-NeuN conjugated with Alexa Fluor 647	Abcam	ab190565
Rabbit polyclonal anti-GFP-Alexa Fluor 488	Fisher Scientific	Cat. #A-21311
Chemicals, Peptides, and Recombinant Proteins
Euthathal	Merial Animal Health	N/A (provided by vet)
Dexadreson (dexamethasone)	Intervet UK Ltd	N/A (provided by vet)
Metacam (meloxicam)	Boehringer Ingelheim	N/A (provided by vet)
Chloramphenicol 1%	Martindale Pharmaceuticals Ltd	N/A (provided by vet)
Germolene	Bayer	Available as over the counter product
Lidocaine hydrochloride 2%	Pfizer	N/A (provided by vet)
Vetbond	3M	1469
Super-Bond C&B	Sun Medical	N/A
3 mm small round cover glass	Harvard Apparatus Ltd	64-0720
Sodium chloride	Merck	1064041000
Sodium hydrogen carbonate	Merck	1063291000
Potassium chloride	Merck	1049361000
Sodium dihydrogen phosphate monohydrate	Merck	1063461000
Magnesium chloride hexahydrite	Merck	1058331000
D(+)-glucose	Merck	1083371000
Oxoid™ phosphate buffered saline tablets	Fisher Scientific	BR0014G
Triton-X	Merck	T8787-50ML
Paraformaldehyde	Merck	P6148-1KG
Sucrose	Merck	S9378-1KG
Goat serum	Merck	G9023-5ML
Fluoromount Aqueous Mounting Medium	Merck	F4680-25ML
Strawberry milk	Yazoo, FrieslandCampina	N/A
Vanilla and lemon extracts	FoodCare	N/A
Experimental Models: Organisms/Strains
B6.Cg-Tg(Fos-tTA,Fos-EGFP∗)1Mmay/J mouse	The Jackson Laboratory	RRID: IMSR_JAX:018306
Software and Algorithms
Fiji (ImageJ)	[42]	https://fiji.sc
ImageJ StackReg plugin	[43]	http://bigwww.epfl.ch/thevenaz/stackreg/
ImageJ Template Matching plugin	[44]	https://sites.google.com/site/qingzongtseng/template-matching-ij-plugin
ImageJ bUnwarpJ plugin	[45]	https://imagej.net/BUnwarpJ
Custom ImageJ macros	This paper	Mendeley Data: https://doi.org/10.17632/45ts33k2tz.1
R	R Project	Version 3.4.3 https://www.r-project.org/
RStudio	https://www.rstudio.com/	Version 1.1.383
R code	This paper	Mendeley Data: https://doi.org/10.17632/45ts33k2tz.1
SPSS	IBM	Version 23