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. 2013 Dec 4;8(12):e81158. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0081158

Figure 4. Decreased proliferation and change in physical properties of mutant optic vesicle.

Figure 4

(A) Immunohistochemical analysis for the presence of BrdU-labelled cells in the prospective neural retina on a coronal section of an E10.5 control embryo (left panel) and an Lhx2-Cre:β-cateninflox/flox embryo (right panel). The part of the prospective neural retina that was analysed for BrdU+ cells in the control and mutant embryos are outlined. (B) Immunohistochemical analysis for the presence apoptotic cells as revealed by the presence of activated Casp-3+ cells on coronal section of an E10.5 control embryo (left panel) and a Lhx2-Cre:β-cateninflox/flox embryo (right panel). (C) Immunohistochemical analyses for the presence of phosphorylated myosin light chain 2 (pMLC2) on a coronal section of an E10.5 control embryo. (D) Immunohistochemical analyses for the presence of pMLC2 on a coronal section on an E10.5 Lhx2-Cre:β-cateninflox/flox embryo. Insets in C and D are a magnification of the areas indicated by the squares. Scale bars: (A, B and C, D) 100 µm.