Fig. 3.

Heterogenous morphology of Iba1+ myeloid cells from female and male hamsters with SARS-CoV-2 infection. Confocal laser scanning microscopy was used to capture highly detailed Iba1+ cells for direct comparison between groups. One field is shown for females (i-viii) and males (ix-xvi) at both timepoints (6 and 21 dpi) following PBS or SARS-CoV-2 infection. Left images are confocal slices and right images are z-projections through a 40 μm brain slice. The viridis lookup table was used for the histological images to increase the visibility of instensity differences. Scale bars = 20 μm.