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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Nat Neurosci. 2013 Jul 7;16(8):1060–1067. doi: 10.1038/nn.3454

Figure 2. Quantitation of absolute and relative sizes of S1 representations in cKO mice.

Figure 2

Neocortical surface area and size of S1 barrel fields were quantified at PND7 using 5HT staining on tangential sections of flattened cortex. Overall cKO neocortex (a) was 51.6% +/− 1.89% the size of wildtype (p < 0.0001, t = 18.5, df = 33, n = 6). cKO PMBSF was 72.8% +/− 3.49% the relative size (b, p = 0.0015, t = 6.3, df = 5, n = 6) and 37.1% +/− 1.74% the absolute size (d, p < 0.0001, t = 14.1, df = 10, n = 6)of wildtype PMBSF. ALBSF was only 27.4% +/− 2.88% the relative size (c, p < 0.0001, t = 38.5, df = 5, n = 6) and 14% +/− 1.70% the absolute size (e, p < 0.0001, t = 24.1, df = 10, n = 6) of wildtype ALBSF. Abbreviations: df: degrees of freedom, sem: standard error of the mean, *: statistically significant, ***: highly statistically significant.