Figure 6.

Barrel cortex in VMAT2^sert-cre mice. (A,B) Coronal sections stained with Nissl from P7 control (A) and recombined (B) littermates. This shows the lack of cytoarchitectural defects in the cerebral cortex and hippocampus; a minor reduction in thickness of upper cortical layers exists in the recombined. (C,D) Flattened cortex of P10 control and VMAT2^sert-cre sectioned through the somatosensory cortex and stained for SERT immunohistochemistry (C,D) showed well clustered thalamo-cortical afferents. Nissl staining (E,F) and Cux1 labeling (G,H) outlined the barrel walls in layer IV, similarly to observations in controls.