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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Aug 18.
Published in final edited form as: Toxins (Basel). 2010 Aug;2(8):1997–2006. doi: 10.3390/toxins2081997

Table 1.

Abbreviations used in this manuscript.

Abbreviation Abbreviated Term
AP Area postrema (e)
ARH Arcuate nucleus of hypothalamus (c)
BBB Blood-brain-barrier
BLA Basolateral nucleus of the amygdala (c)
CNS Central nervous system
CP Caudate-putamen (a)
CSF Cerebro-spinal fluid
CVO Circumventricular organs
DMX Dorsal motor nucleus of the vagus (e)
ec External capsule (c)
MD Mediodorsal nucleus of the thalamus (d)
ME Median eminence (c)
MH Medial habenula (d)
NTS Nucleus of the solitary tract (e)
OVLT Organum vasculosum of the lamina terminalis (b)
PVT Paraventricular nucleus of the thalamus (d)
SCO Subcommissural organ
SFO Subfornical organ (d)
V3 Third ventricle
V4 Fourth ventricle
VL Lateral ventricle
XII Hypoglossal nucleus (e)
(a)

See Figure 2d for the positional information;

(b)

See Figure 4b for the positional information;

(c)

See Figure 4d for the positional information,

(d)

See Figure 4f for the positional information.