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. 2019 Dec 10;9:18692. doi: 10.1038/s41598-019-54887-4

Figure 3.

Figure 3

In vivo analysis of spine density and spine size at juvenile stage. (A) Schematic illustrating in utero electroporation approach targeting layer 2/3 cortical pyramidal neurons and subsequent quantification of dendritic spine density and head size. Scale bar: 50 µm. (B) Representative images showing apical oblique dendrites of neurons at P21 co-expressing either Venus and tdTomato (Control), or mRFP-tagged F-BARx, F-BARΔ49, SRGAP2B, or SRGAP2C. Scale bar: 2 µm. (C,D) Quantification of spine density (C) and spine head size (D). Quantifications are shown as frequency distributions. Spine density (segments): nControl = 26, nF-BARx = 25, nF-BARΔ49 = 34, nSRGAP2B = 25, nSRGAP2C = 25; Spine size (number of spines): nControl = 1693, nF-BARx = 2054, nF-BARΔ49 = 3267, nSRGAP2B = 2900, nSRGAP2C = 2448; one-way ANOVA with Holm-Sidak’s post hoc multiple comparison test; *p < 0.05, ****p < 0.0001 compared to control.