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. 2010 Sep 1;169(3-2):974–986. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2010.05.070

Table 1.

Density of clustered and scattered immunoparticles labeling BKCa channels in the soma of dentate gyrus granule cells (GC), hippocampal CA3 pyramidal neurons (CA3), layer V pyramidal neurons of the somatosensory cortex (SSCx) and principal neurons of the basolateral amygdala (BL) compared to cerebellar Purkinje cells (PC¥; values for PC were published by Kaufmann et al., 2009)

GC CA3 SSCx BL PC¥
Average size of a cluster (in μm2; n=40)

  • 0.069±0.013

  • ***

  • 0.071±0.011

  • ***

  • 0.070±0.019

  • ***

  • 0.073±0.014

  • ***

 0.151±0.036
Particle density within a cluster (in particles per μm2; n=40)

  • 124±14

  • †††,###,***

  • 175±24

  • ‡‡‡,###,***

  • 114±29

  • ***

  • 102±15

  • ***

 341±31
Number of particles per cluster (in particles per cluster; n=40)

  • 8.5±1.6

  • †††,***

  • 12.4±2.3

  • ‡‡‡,###,***

  • 7.8±2.2

  • ***

  • 7.4±2.6

  • ***

 46.8±4.9
Density of clusters (in clusters per 100 μm2; area=600 μm2)

  • 5.8±1.8

  • ††,**

 9.2±3.7 7.5±2.1 8.1±3.0 9.5±2.2
Density of scattered particles (in particles per μm2; area=250 μm2)

  • 0.98±0.21

  • ‡‡‡,##,***

  • 1.03±0.26

  • ‡‡‡,###,***

  • 0.67±0.12

  • ***

  • 0.74±0.17

  • ***

 5.68±0.43
Background levels (in particles per μm2; area=250 μm2) 0.26±0.03 n.d. n.d. n.d. 0.32±0.18

n.d., not determined.

Group comparisons were performed by 1 way ANOVA followed by post hoc Bonferroni's (α=0.05): †, GC versus CA3; ‡, GC versus SSCx; #, GC versus BL; *, GC versus PC; ‡, CA3 versus SSCx; #, CA3 versus BL; *, CA3 versus PC; #, SSCx versus BL; *, SSCx versus PC; *, BL versus PC; P<0.01, two symbols; P<0.001, three symbols.