Four-week-old human cortical neurons without astrocytes or 14 DIV mouse cortical neurons were used for gene expression analyses. Total RNA was isolated using mirVana kit (Invitrogen) or TRIzol (Invitrogen) according to the manufacturer’s instructions. RNA-seq analysis data are from a previous study14 (link). For qPCR, a total of 1 μg RNA was used to synthesize cDNA with the SuperScript® III First-Strand Synthesis System (Invitrogen). Quantitative RT-PCR was then performed using SYBR green (Applied Biosystems) and the QuantStudio™ 6 Real-Time PCR System (Applied Biosystems) or the StepOnePlus™ Real-Time PCR System (Applied Biosystems). Expression levels for all genes were normalized to the housekeeping gene GAPDH and expressed relative to the relevant control samples. Primers used for this study are summarized in Supplementary Table 3.
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