Secondary antibodies. DyLight488 (1:500, ab98794, abcam), Alexa Fluor647 (1:500, 706-605-148, Jackson ImmunoResearch), Alexa Fluor555 (1:500, ab150066, abcam).
Whole slide scans of labelled sections were recorded on a Zeiss automatic microscope AxioScan Z1 with high aperture lenses, equipped with a Zeiss Axiocam 506 mono and a Hitachi 3CCD HV-F202SCL camera and Zeiss ZEN 2.3 software. Image analysis was performed with Image Pro 6 (Media Cybernetics, Silver Spring, MD, USA). Image analysis was performed as described previously [25 (link)]. Target areas (cortex, caudate putamen and hippocampus) were identified by drawing areas of interest (AOI). The image analysis was macro-based and ran automatically so that the results are operator-independent and fully reproducible. Raw data were edited in Excel and transferred to GraphPad Prism for statistical analysis and preparation of graphs.