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. 2020 Sep 7;10:14700. doi: 10.1038/s41598-020-71626-2

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Relationship in fundus autofluorescent spots, apoptosis of photoreceptors and retinal ONL thickness in the central retina of rd10 raised under regular light cycle. (A) Pictures show the time course change in the central retina of rd10 from P16 to P60. Left pictures are in vivo FAF imaging with a retinal imaging microscope. Middle pictures show the confocal images of extracted flat-mounted retina at the ONL level, labeled with an apoptosis marker ssDNA (white). Scale bars, 100 μm, “ + ” show the center of the optic nerve head. Right pictures show the retinal section labeled with DAPI (blue), ssDNA (white) and Iba1 (red). Scale bars, 50 μm. (B) The graphs show the quantification of the FAF spot area % (green line), the ssDNA+ area % (black line), the thickness of the ONL (blue line) and thinning rate of the ONL (magenta line). The markers of the graph show mean and SD (n = 4). The peak of thinning rate of the ONL and the peak of FAF spot area were observed synchronously on P22 with a slight delay after the peak of apoptosis.