Fig. 2.
cPLA2α and misfolded SOD1 accumulates specifically in motor neurons of young pre-symptomatic SOD1G93A mice. A Double staining (red) of motor neurons (ChAT), microglia (Iba-1) or astrocytes (GFAP) and misfolded SOD1 (B8H10, green) in the spinal cord sections of 6 weeks old pre-symptomatic SOD1G93A mice. Scale bars = 20 μm. Shown a representative out of five mice. B Double staining (red) of motor neurons (ChAT), microglia (Iba-1) or astrocytes (GFAP) and cPLA2α (green) in the spinal cord sections of 6 weeks old pre-symptomatic SOD1G93A mice. Scale bars = 20 μm. Shown a representative out of five mice. C Double immunofluorescence staining of cPLA2α (red) with misfolded SOD1 (B8H10, green) proteins in the spinal cord sections of control mice (WT) and 6 weeks old pre-symptomatic mutant SOD1G93A mice. Scale bars = 100 μm. D The Pearson coefficient correlation (r) between cPLA2α and misfolded SOD1 in the motor neurons of the intensity of cPLA2α and misfolded SOD1 expressed in arbitrary units of immunostaining as presented in the representative results in C. Four filed in each of the 8 different mice analyzed