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. 2018 Feb 14;8:2996. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-20448-4

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Neuronal morphology is not affected by knocking down VPS35 in neurons. (a,b) Representative confocal microscopy images of hippocampal autaptic neurons containing either control shRNA or one of the three shRNAs against VPS35. Scale bar = 50 μm. (a) Immunolabelling for MAP2 and SMI-312. Merge image of the MAP2 (green) SMI-312 (magenta). (b) Immunolabelling for VAMP2/synaptobrevin, Synaptophysin and Bassoon. Quantification of (c) the dendritic length (n = 56 ± 8 neurons, N = 5 animals); (d) axonal length n = 38 ± 8, N = 3 animals); (e) VAMP2/synaptobrevin-labelled synaptic density (n = 34 ± 7 neurons, N = 3 animals); (f) of VAMP2/synaptobrevin staining intensity n = 34 ± 7 neurons, N = 3 animals). (g) synaptophysin staining intensity (n = 34 ± 7 neurons, N = 3 animals). (f) Bassoon staining intensity (n = 20 ± 1 neurons, N = 2 animals). Detailed information (average, SEM, n and statistics) is shown in Supplementary Table S1.