Table 1.

Identity, source, and characterization of antibodies

Molecule	Code no. in original laboratory	Host animal	Developer	Epitope, amino acid residues	Protein concentration	Optimal dilution FRL	Characterization testsa			Reference
							Immunohistochemistry	Western blot	FRL
GluA1-4 (panAMPAR)	Anti-GluR1-4 (R3/BO A/P 30/08/01)	Rabbit	E. Molnár	Mouse GluA1 724–781	Purified ab., 330 μg/ml	300×	Brain, postembedding EM	COS7 cells	WT rat and mouse, GluA2/3 KO	Nusser et al., 1998; Masugi-Tokita et al., 2007
vGluT2	Anti-DNPI-Gp (670 μg/ml)	Guinea pig	M. Watanabe	Rat 559–582	Purified ab., 670 μg/ml	200×	Brain, pre-embedding	Brain	WT rat	Miyazaki, 2003; Kawamura et al., 2006; Miura et al., 2006; Masugi-Tokita et al., 2007
GLT1 (EAAT2)	Anti-GLT-1 (0.96 mg/ml)	Rabbit	K. Tanaka	Mouse 500–525	Purified ab., 960 μg/ml	300×	Brain	Brain	No	Yamada et al., 1998
GLAST (EAAT1)	Anti-GLAST (1000)	Rabbit	M. Watanabe	Mouse C-term 41aa	Purified ab., 1 mg/ml	300×	Brain	Brain	No	Shibata et al., 1997; Yamada et al., 2000; Watase et al., 1998

^aData are presented in cited publications.