cultures were fixed in 4% paraformaldehyde for 15 min. After washing
with PBS, the cells were permeabilized with 0.5% Triton X-100 (Sigma-Aldrich,
USA) in PBS for 5 min and for 10 min. It was followed by blocking
with 4% bovine serum albumin + 1% normal goat serum in 0.25% Triton
X-100 (Sigma-Aldrich, USA) for 1 h at room temperature and, subsequently,
in a mixture of the primary anti-GFAP rabbit antibody (G9269 Sigma-Aldrich,
USA) overnight at 4 °C. After washing in PBST 0.25% Triton X-100,
goat anti-rabbit conjugated with Texas red secondary antibodies applied
for 2 h at room temperature followed by DAPI staining for 5 min followed
by three washing with 0.1% Triton X-100.
Images were captured
using a citation 5 (Biotek, Agilent Technoloies, USA) fluorescence
microscope, and quantification was performed as reported earlier.57 (link),58 (link)