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. 2020 Oct 20;14:570596. doi: 10.3389/fncel.2020.570596

Table 2.

Measures of apical and basal dendrites of pyramidal neurons of layers II/III and V/VI expressing GCaMP3 and GCaMP5G, respectively, vs. batch-internal EGFP expressing neurons as control.

Pyramidal cells overexpressing GCaMP3 and GCaMP5G at DIV 14 and DIV 25
Pyramidal cells in layers II/III Pyramidal cells in layers V/VI
ADL (n) BDL ADL (n) BDL
Age, condition (Number of batches) Segments Segments Segments Segments
(A) DIV 14 Control for GCaMP3 and GCaMP5G (4) 1716 ± 74 (71) 336 ± 15 1468 ± 61 (55) 308 ± 19
37.1 ± 1.8 8.9 ± 0.5 31.7 ± 1.8 7.8 ± 0.4
GCaMP3 (4) 1072 ± 77 (41) 320 ± 24 1037 ± 69 (50) 300 ± 20
22.9 ± 1.5 7.5 ± 0.5 21.8 ± 1.9 6.7 ± 0.5
GCaMP5G (3) 1603 ± 69 (42) 315 ± 18 1470 ± 71 (32) 326 ± 21
36.1 ± 1.7 7.7 ± 0.5 32.8 ± 1.9 8.0 ± 0.5
ANOVA on ranks vs. control <0.001 0.61 <0.001 0.47
<0.001 0.094 <0.001 0.022
Mann–Whitney test GCaMP3 vs. control <0.001 <0.001
<0.001 <0.001 0.022
(B) DIV 25 Control for GCaMP3 and GCaMP5G (4) 1980 ± 125 (31) 439 ± 28 1876 ± 108 (38) 446 ± 33
34.9 ± 2.1 8.7 ± 0.5 29.3 ± 1.4 8.3 ± 0.6
GCaMP3 (4) 1449 ± 125 (25) 374 ± 27 1432 ± 140 (23) 337 ± 31
24.6 ± 2.0 7.3 ± 0.6 24.6 ± 2.3 7.1 ± 0.6
GCaMP5G (3) 1901 ± 126 (31) 394 ± 23 1481 ± 99 (32) 403 ± 42
32.0 ± 2.0 7.6 ± 0.4 26.7 ± 2.1 7.6 ± 0.6
ANOVA on ranks vs. control 0.015 0.417 0.009 0.003
<0.001 0.082 0.096 0.040
Mann–Whitney test 0.008 0.025 0.012
GCaMP3 vs. control <0.001
Mann–Whitney test 0.005
GCaMP5G vs. control

(A) DIV 14. (B) DIV 25. Given are the mean ± SEM, and n, the number of cells analyzed. P values of the Mann–Whitney rank-sum test vs. control performed after the ANOVA on ranks are in italics. ADL, apical dendritic length (μm); BDL, mean (per cell) basal dendritic length (μm); segments, number of dendritic segments. Significant values are bold and p-values are shown in italic.