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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Feb 17.
Published in final edited form as: Neuron. 2020 Dec 31;109(4):576–596. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2020.12.008

Figure 3. Summary illustrating acute astrocytic regulation of neuronal circuits and behaviors relevant to different regions of the mouse brain.

Figure 3.

Schematic of a sagittal section of a mouse brain where various regions and nuclei as well as associated behaviors that were shown to be regulated by acute astrocytic mechanisms are depicted. Ob, olfactory bulb; Cx, cerebral cortex; M1, primary motor cortex; Lv, lateral ventricle; Cc, corpus callosum; dSt, dorsal striatum; NAc, nucleus accumbens; Hip, hippocampus; Th, thalamus; LHb, lateral habenula; Hy, hypothalamus; ARC, arcuate nucleus; SCN, suprachiasmatic nucleus; CeM, central amygdala; VTA, ventral tegmental area; DVC, dorsal vagal complex. Note: in the text we also consider sleep, but this is not illustrated here because it involves multiple brain nuclei. Furthermore, the cartoon does not include studies where behavioral alterations result over longer periods such as following the deletion of a critical gene within astrocytes or during development and aging.