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. 2022 Sep 22;27(12):4948–4958. doi: 10.1038/s41380-022-01778-2

Fig. 5. Leptin induces oxytocin expression in the paraventricular nucleus (PVN) of the hypothalamus in male mice.

Fig. 5

a Distribution of leptin receptor (LepRb)-expressing cells (red) and oxytocin-immunoreactive neurons (green) in the different levels of PVN. Scale bars, 500 µm for low magnification and 100 µm for high magnification. b High-magnification image showing close apposition of puncta of LepRb-expressing neurons with oxytocin-positive neurons. Scale bar, 10 µm. c Oxytocin RNA expression levels 15 min after i.p. leptin injection. Left, hnRNA expression levels; right, mRNA expression levels. n = 8 male mice per group. **P  <  0.01 compared with saline-treated group.