Fig. 4. Vaccination with MultiTEP-based DNA vaccines significantly reduced the accumulation of PK-resistant α-synuclein in transgenic mice.
a Representative images of brain sections from male mice pretreated with proteinase K (PK) and immunostained with an antibody against α-synuclein. Each panel illustrates from top to bottom an overview of the brain, neocortex, hippocampus, striatum, and substantia nigra regions in non-Tg, and hαSyn Tg mice treated with vehicle, PV-1947D, PV-1948D, PV-1949D, and PV-1950D vaccination. b Image analysis of PK-resistant αSyn in the neuropil expressed and corrected optical density in the neocortex, hippocampus, striatum, and substantia nigra (from left to right) in male mice. c Image analysis of PK-resistant αSyn-positive cell counts per 0.1 mm2 in the neocortex, hippocampus, striatum, and substantia nigra (from left to right) of male mice. d Representative images of brain sections from female mice pretreated with PK and immunostained with an antibody against α-synuclein. Each panel illustrates from top to bottom an overview of the brain, neocortex, hippocampus, striatum, and substantia nigra regions in non-Tg, and αSyn Tg mouse treated with vehicle, PV-1947D, PV-1948D, PV-1949D, and PV-1950D vaccination. e Image analysis of PK-resistant αSyn in the neuropil expressed as optical density in the neocortex, hippocampus, striatum, and substantia nigra (from left to right) in female mice. f Image analysis of αSyn cell counts per 0.1 mm2 in the neocortex, hippocampus, striatum, and substantia nigra (from left to right) in female mice. The scale bar in the overview is 250 µm, the others are 25 µm. *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001, ****p < 0.0001.