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. 2020 Jun 23;9:e54590. doi: 10.7554/eLife.54590

Figure 2. Analysis of P2ry12-CreER recombination in brain macrophage populations.

(A) Cartoon depicting the subsets of brain macrophage populations that were analyzed in P2ry12-CreER; Rosa26Ai14 mice. D-BAMs, SD-BAMs, CP-BAMs = dural, subdural, choroid plexus border-associated macrophages. PVMs = perivascular macrophages. Adapted, with permission, from Van Hove et al., 2019. (B) Analysis of P2ry12-CreER; Rosa26Ai14 recombination in SMA-adjacent LYVE1+ perivascular macrophages. No recombination was seen in perivascular macrophages, unlike Cx3CR1-CreER; Rosa26Ai14 mice (see Figure 2—figure supplement 1). (C) Analysis of recombination in LYVE1+ pial macrophages. ERTR7 expression delineates pial boundaries. (D) Analysis of recombination in SMA-adjacent CD206+ perivascular macrophages. (E) Analysis of recombination in IBA1+ macrophages of the choroid plexus. (F) Whole-mount cerebral cortex and dura, immunostained for CD206. (G) Whole-mount cerebral cortex and dura, immunostained for LYVE1. Weakly red cells in pial images are microglia in deeper focal planes. (H–I) Quantification of recombination in CD206+ (H) and LYVE1+ (I) macrophages in the parenchymal, pial and dural spaces. (J) Quantification of recombination in IBA1+ macrophages of the choroid plexus. Error bars = SEM. Scale bars = 100 µm (B–G).

Figure 2—source data 1. Analysis of P2ry12-CreER recombination in brain macrophage populations.

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Figure 2—figure supplement 1. Analysis of perivascular and pial recombination in Cx3CR1-CreER; Rosa26Ai14 mice.

Figure 2—figure supplement 1.

(ACx3cr1-CreER;Rosa26Ai14 recombination labels SMA-adjacent, LYVE1(+) perivascular macrophages (arrowheads), unlike P2ry12-CreER. (B) Cx3cr1-CreER; Rosa26Ai14 recombination in the pia. (C) Cx3cr1-CreER; Rosa26Ai14 recombination in IBA1+ macrophages of the choroid plexus. Scale bars = 100 µm (A–C).
Figure 2—video 1. Z-stack image series of P2ry12-CreER; Rosa26Ai14 cortical whole-mount immunostaining.
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An animated GIF of optical sections obtained from a P2ry12-CreER; Rosa26Ai14 whole-mount cerebral cortex. The whole-mount sample was immunostained for CD206 (green), which marks meningeal and perivascular macrophages. TdTomato expression marks microglia.