Table 1.

Useful reagents to specifically label the cellular (SPG, PG, fat body) and acellular (neural lamella) layers of Drosophila BBB.

	Physiologic Markers	Antibody	GAL4 / UAS-GFP	Genetrap
Neural Lamella	Lectin	--	--	Trol (G00022)
Fat Body	>100kDa dextran (histiocytes) Nile red (triglycerides)	--	Croquemort-GAL4 (FBst0025041)	--
Perineurial Glia	<100kDa dextran	VMAT B5	UAS-moesin-GFP1	--
			UAS-tau-GFP2
			UAS-actin-GFP1
Subperineurial Glia	--	C219 (Mdr65)3	SPG-GAL44	Nrg (G00305)
		C494 (unknown)5,6		Nrx-IV (CA06597)
		Moody7		Dlg1 (CC01936)

¹(Edwards et al. 1997),

²(Manning and Krasnow 1993),

³(Mayer et al. 2009),

⁴(Stork et al. 2008),

⁵(Bainton, unpublished),

⁶(Georges et al. 1990),

⁷(Bainton et al. 2005)