Table 3.

Prolactin-releasing peptide immunoreactivity in the different brain areas after high salt intake

	Cell number/section		Fiber density (μm2/100 μm2)			n
	cVLM	cDMM	AV3V	SON	PVN
NS	6.3 ± 0.8	52.3 ± 3.7	1.2 ± 0.2	1.0 ± 0.1	4.2 ± 0.2	4
HS	10.8* ± 1.4	52.5 ± 5.4	3.0* ± 0.2	1.4* ± 0.1	10.2* ± 1.6	4

AV3V periventricular anteroventral third ventricle region, cDMM caudal dorsomedial, cVLM caudal ventrolateral medulla oblongata, PVN hypothalamic paraventricular nucleus, SON supraoptic nucleus. Means ± SEM, Student’s t tests, p* < 0.05 vs. NS controls