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. 2018 Oct 23;8:15647. doi: 10.1038/s41598-018-34092-5

Figure 3.

Figure 3

A-type plexins suppress the formation of axons. (a,b) Hippocampal neurons from E18 rat embryos were transfected with vectors for GFP (green, control), dominant-negative Plexin-B1Δcyt (PlxnB1-DN), Plexin-A1Δcyt (PlxnA1-DN) or constitutively active PlexinA1Δsema (PlxnA1-CA) and analyzed at 3 d.i.v. by staining with an anti-MAP2 (red, dendrites) and the Tau-1 antibody (blue, axon). Representative images of transfected neurons are shown. The scale bar is 25 μm. (b) The percentage of unpolarized neurons without an axon (0, red), polarized neurons with a single axon (1, blue) and neurons with multiple axons (>1, green) is shown (Student’s t-test and two-way ANOVA; n = 3, independent experiments with >150 neurons per experiment for; values are means ± s.e.m, ***p < 0.001 compared to control; n.s. not significant).