Percentages of wake, NREMs and REMs in 3 h bins after intraperitoneal administration of vehicle (saline) or CNO (0.3 mg/kg, i.p., 10:00 AM) in MCH-Cre (n=10) and MCH-Vglut2KO (n=11) that were injected with AAV-hM3Dq into the lateral hypothalamus. Two-way ANOVA between gene and treatment (1–3 h: interaction F(1,31)=0.0069, p=0.93; treatment F(1,31)=28.65, p<0.0001; gene F(1, 31)=8.98, p=0.0053. 4–6 h: interaction F(1,31)=1.30; treatment F(1,31)=10.00, p=0.0035; gene F(1,31)=2.80, p=0.10) followed by Sidak’s Multiple Comparison test; * p<0.05, ** p<0.01. All data are mean ± SEM.