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. 2019 Oct 4;13:227. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2019.00227

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Female sexual behavior activates the nucleus accumbens (NAc) shell and core, but not the medial or lateral caudate-putamen (CPu). (A) Hamster atlas plate (+2.1 mm from Bregma) indicating counting domains for 1-medial CPu, 2-lateral CPu, 3-NAc shell, and 4-NAc core. (B) Representative c-Fos counting boxes for the NAc core. (C) There was no significant difference between animals that received sex experience and controls in either the medial or lateral CPu. (D) There were significantly more c-Fos positive cells in animals that received sex experience than for their control counterparts in both the shell and core of the NAc (*indicates p < 0.05).