Figure 1.

Representative images show 4-month old newborn granule cells labeled by the CAG-GFP retroviral vector in the control and SE rats. Rats were sacrificed 4 months after the CAG-GFP retroviral vector injection and coronal sections through the right hippocampus were cut into 80 μm. Z-series stacks of 2 μm were taken by a Zeiss LSM 780 confocal microscope. The white box-indicated regions in the left panels were scanned under a higher objective and are shown in the right panels, correspondingly. Arrows indicate the newborn granule cell that has a basal dendrite attached to the soma. ML, molecular layer; GCL, granule cell layer.