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. 2016 Jul 22;11(7):e0159119. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0159119

Fig 3. Ablation of PrPC does not affect synaptophysin immunoreactivity and does not induce gliosis in APPWT mice.

Fig 3

APPWT/PrP+/+ and APPWT/PrP-/- mice show retention of the pre-synaptic marker synaptophysin (A, D) while APPSwe.Ind/PrP+/+ mice reveal disorganization of synaptophysin immunoreactivity (arrow) (G). Astrogliosis and microgliosis are observed in 75 week old APPSwe.Ind/PrP+/+ mice, (arrows) (H, I) but not in mice expressing APPWT/PrP+/+ and APPWT/PrP-/- (B, C, E, F). Section were probed with anti-synaptophysin (A, D, G), anti-GFAP (B, E, H), and anti-Iba1 (C, F, I) antibodies. Figures A,D,G (synaptophysin) x60 magnification scale bar = 20μm, figures B,E,H (GFAP) and C,F,I (Iba1) x40 magnification scale bar = 50μm.