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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Neurochem. 2012 Feb 9;120(6):948–963. doi: 10.1111/j.1471-4159.2011.07630.x

Figure 2. Microglial morphology and number are not affected by sex at embryonic day (E) 17.

Figure 2

Analysis of microglial morphology within the parietal cortex, CA1 hippocampus, CA3 hippocampus, dentate gyrus of the hippocampus, amygdala, and paraventricular nucleus indicated that all brain regions had significantly more amoeboid microglia and microglia with stout processes than microglia with thicker or thinner processes. No brain region analyzed displayed a significant effect of sex on microglia number or morphology at this age (within-subjects ANOVA, n = 4 rats/group). Data represent the mean ± SEM of all Iba1+ cells in each morphological category across all sections analyzed.