Table 1.

Primary antibodies used for immunohistochemistry

Glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP)	Monoclonal mouse	Sigma-Aldrich, St. Louis, MO	1:1000
Glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP)	Polyclonal rabbit	DAKO, Carpinteria, CA	1:1000
Glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP)	Polyclonal chicken	Covance, Berkeley, CA	1:500
Vimentin	Monoclonal mouse	DAKO	1:500
Nestin	Monoclonal mouse	Covance	1:500
Glutamine synthetase	Monoclonal mouse	MIllipore, San Diego, CA	1:1000
Glutamine synthetase	Polyclonal rabbit	Santa Cruz Biotechnology, Santa Cruz, CA	1:200
EAAT1 (GLAST)	Monoclonal mouse	Novocastra Lab, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK	1:100
EAAT2 (GLT-1)	Polyclonal guinea-pig	Millipore	1:1000
EAAT2 (GLT-1)	Polyclonal rabbit	Cell Signaling Technology, Inc, Boston, MA	1:100
S100	Polyclonal rabbit	DAKO	1:400
CD44	Monoclonal mouse	DAKO	1:80
CD44	Monoclonal rat	Millipore	1:200
alphaB-Crystallin	Polyclonal rabbit	Stressgen, Canada	1:300
SPARC/Osteonectin	Polyclonal goat	R&D Systems, Inc., Minnezpolis, MN	1:200
SPARC/Osteonectin	Polyclonal rabbit	Cell Signaling	1:200
MAP2	Monoclonal mouse	Sigma-Aldrich	1:250
Pan-neuronal neurofilament marker SMI 311	Monoclonal mouse	Covance	1:1000
NeuN	Monoclonal mouse	Millipore	1:100
CD68	Monoclonal mouse	DAKO	1:300
LN-3	Monoclonal mouse	ICN Biomedicals, Inc., Aurora, OH	1:50
Iba-1	Polyclonal rabbit	Biocare Madical, LLC, Concord, CA	1:500
Phospho-S6 ribosomal protein (Ser 235/236)*	Monoclonal rabbit	Cell Signaling	1:200
Phospho-S6 ribosomal protein (Ser 240/244)*	Monoclonal rabbit	Cell Signaling	1:200
Phospho-p44/42 MAPK (Erk1/2) (Thr202/Tyr204)	Monoclonal rabbit	Cell Signaling	1:100
Tumor necrosis factor alpha (TNF alpha)	Polyclonal goat	Santa Cruz
Neurotropin receptor p75NTR	Polyclonal rabbit	Promega Corp.,Madison, WI	1:500

*- these two antibodies gave similar results.