The Neurons that Will Quench Your Thirst (2 of 3) (IMAGE)

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The Neurons that Will Quench Your Thirst (2 of 3)

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Overlap between Fos TRAP (targeted recombination in active populations) labeling and endogenous Fos protein expression in Median Preoptic (MnPO) thirst-association neurons following water deprivation. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the 15 September 2017, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by W.E. Allen at Stanford University in Stanford, CA, and colleagues was titled, "Thirst-associated preoptic neurons encode an aversive motivational drive."

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William E. Allen, Liqun Luo

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