Figure 3. SRF signaling is downregulated in hippocampal OPCs with ageing and induced by acute young CSF injection.
a, Srf mRNA quantified in OPC (Pdgfrα+ nuclei) in the CA1 region of the hippocampus of young (3 months) and aged (22 months) mice. (young n=6, aged n=7; two-sided t-test; mean ± s.e.m.).
b, Representative images of a. Scale bar, 10μm and 5μm in insert.
c, Volcano plot of DEGs of aged vs. young hippocampal OPC nuclei. Dashed line represents p.adj=0.05 (n=4).
d, Pathways enriched (red) or depleted (blue) in hippocampal OPCs with age. Resource categories; # CellMarker; ## Wikipathways; ### GO BP (n=4, unweighted Kolmogorov-Smirnow test).
e, Box plot of effect size of Srf targets (TRANSFAC database) in hippocampal OPCs from aged vs. young, YM-CSF vs. aCSF at 1hr and 6hr timepoints (n=4; genes pre-filtered by p<0.05 cutoff; Wilcoxon rank sum test; box show the median and the 25–75th percentiles, and the whiskers indicate values up to 1.5-times the interquartile range).
f, Pathways enriched (red) or depleted (blue) in hippocampal OPCs following 6 hrs of aCSF or YM-CSF injection (n=4). Resource categories; # KEGG; ## GP MF (unweighted Kolmogorov-Smirnow test).
g, Meta-analysis of log2FC of SRF target genes (TRANSFAC) in human AD vs. control and mouse aged vs. young ageing datasets (genes pre-filtered by p<0.05 cutoff; box show the median and the 25–75th percentiles, and the whiskers indicate values up to 1.5-times the interquartile range).