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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Aug 10.
Published in final edited form as: Cereb Cortex. 2003 Sep;13(9):921–931. doi: 10.1093/cercor/13.9.921

Figure 6.

Figure 6

Cortical circuits reflect cortical cytoarchitecture. Panels show pairs of coronal sections through barrel cortex of wild-type (+/+) and mutant (−/−) mice stained immunohistochemically for VGLUT2 (left pair of panels) or for synaptic zinc (right pair of panels). Each panel is centered on a layer IV barrel as determined from adjacent Nissl-stained sections. Note the complementary density and distribution of axon terminals stained by these two markers. Also note comparable staining patterns in wild-type and mutant cortex for layers IV through VI, and the attenuated thickness of layers II/III. Bar = 300 µm for all panels.