Behavioral and Neural Correlates of Acute and Scheduled Hunger in C57BL/6 Mice
Figure 7
c-Fos protein expression in the in the nucleus accumbens core (NAc Core) of calorie-restricted, acutely fasted, and AL control mice.
(A) Representative micrographs of c-Fos staining in the core of the nucleus accumenbs at TP−1 and +2. (B) Mean (±SEM) number of c-Fos-immunoreactive nuclei in the NAc Core of AL, fasted, and CR mice at 5 time points measured relative to feeding. (C) Representative coronal brain map with Nissl stain showing location of region under study. (Adapted from Paxinos and Franklin). Sample sizes for TP−7.5 thru +2 are n = 4, 8, 8, 6, 4 for AL groups, n = 4, 8, 8, 6, 4 for CR groups, and n = 4, 4, 4, 4, 4 for Fast groups.