BLA	basolateral nucleus of the amygdala
BMA	basomedial nucleus of the amygdala
CA1	Cornu Ammonis 1 region of the hippocampus
CA2	Cornu Ammonis 2 region of the hippocampus
Ct value	threshold cycle value (in RT-qPCR)
dabP	gene of the bacterial D site of albumin promoter (albumin D-box) binding protein
DAPI	4′,6-diamidino-2-phenylindole, a blue-fluorescent DNA stain
DNA	deoxyribonucleic acid
FOXA2	gene of the human forkhead box A2
GABA	gamma-aminobutyric acid
Gad1	gene of the mouse glutamate decarboxylase 1
Het	heterozygote/heterozygous, carrying different alleles of the gene
Hom	homozygote/homozygous, carrying identical alleles of the gene
hSSTR4	gene of human somatostatin receptor subtype 4
i.p.	intraperitoneally
KO	knock-out, an artificially created nonfunctional variant of the gene
LM-PCR	ligation-mediated polymerase chain reaction
mRNA	messenger ribonucleic acid
NCBI	National Center for Biotechnology Information
OB	olfactory bulb
Otol1	gene of the mouse otolin 1
PB	piggyBac, a type of transposon system
PBS	phosphate-buffered saline
pcDNA	plasmid cloning DNA
PCR	polymerase chain reaction
Pir	piriform cortex
Polr2a	gene of the mouse RNA polymerase II subunit A
polyA	polyadenylation signal sequence
Ppib	gene of the mouse peptidylprolyl isomerase B
PrL	prelimbic cortex
RT	room temperature
RT-qPCR	reverse transcription quantitative polymerase chain reaction
S1	primary somatosensory cortex
Sis	gene of the mouse sucrase-isomaltase
SNP	single-nucleotide polymorphism
SST1-5	somatostatin receptor subtype 1-5
Sstr4	gene of mouse somatostatin receptor subtype 4
SV	seminal vesicle
tdTomato	tandem dimer Tomato, a red fluorescent reporter protein
TG	trigeminal ganglion
THBD	gene of the human thrombomodulin
Ubc	gene of the mouse ubiquitin C
Vglut1	gene of the mouse vesicular glutamate transporter 1
WT	wild type