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. 2018 Dec 6;9:5211. doi: 10.1038/s41467-018-07566-3

Fig. 2.

Fig. 2

Excitability and neurotransmitter productions of dbh-disrupted LC neurons. a, b Firing rate (a) and the current clamp recordings (b) of the LC cells. The horizontal brain slices containing LC were prepared from the mice bilaterally injected with AAV-DJ sgControl or AAV-DJ sgDbh. The recordings were performed with 7 cells/3 animals (sgControl) and 8 cells/3 animals (sgDbh), respectively. c Quantification of norepinephrine in brain homogenates. The olfactory bulb (OB; left panel) or prefrontal cortex (PFC; right panel) were removed from the mice bilaterally injected with AAV-DJ sgControl (n = 6) or AAV-DJ sgDbh (n = 7). (*P < 0.05, **P < 0.01 by two-tailed Student t-test between sgControl and sgDbh; t = 3.516 (OB) and 2.382 (PFC), df = 11 (OB) and 11 (PFC)). d Quantification of norepinephrine (left panel) and dopamine (right panel) in the LC. The LC was removed from the mice unilaterally injected with DJ sgControl (n = 4–5) or AAV-DJ sgDbh (n = 5). (**P < 0.01 by two-tailed Student t-test between sgControl and sgDbh; t = 4.512 (norepinephrine) and 1.601 (dopamine), df = 8 (norepinephrine) and 7 (dopamine))