alcohol series from 70% to 100%, and cleaned with xylene. Tissues were embedded into
paraffin using Embedding center (Leica, Westlar, Germany) and made into paraffin tissue
blocks. Tissue blocks were sectioned 4 µm thick using a rotary microtome (Leica) and
sliced sections were placed on slide glass. Tissue slides were deparaffinized with xylene
and hydrated with ethyl alcohol series from 100% to 70%, and were kept in water. Tissue
slide were stained with Harris’ hematoxylin solution (Sigma-Aldrich) for 3 min, washed
with tap water for 10 min, reacted with Eosin Y (Sigma-Aldrich) for 1 min. After staining
process, tissue slides were dehydrated with gradient ethyl alcohol series, cleaned with
xylene, and sealed with a permount mounting solution (Fisher scientific, Fair Lawn, NJ,
USA). The morphological changes of the cerebral cortex were observed using Olympus
microscopy (Olympus, Tokyo, Japan) and microscopic images were taken.