Investigating Methodological Differences in the Assessment of Dendritic Morphology of Basolateral Amygdala Principal Neurons-A Comparison of Golgi-Cox and Neurobiotin Electroporation Techniques
Klenowski, Paul M. Wright, Sophie E. Mu, Erica W. H. Noakes, Peter G. Lavidis, Nickolas A. Bartlett, Selena E. Bellingham, Mark C. Fogarty, Matthew J.
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Quantitative assessments of neuronal subtypes in numerous brain regions show large variations in dendritic arbor size. A critical experimental factor is the method used to visualize neurons. We chose to investigate quantitative differences in basolateral amygdala (BLA) principal neuron morphology using two of the most common visualization methods: Golgi-Cox staining and neurobiotin (NB) filling. We show in 8-week-old Wistar rats that NB-filling reveals significantly larger dendritic arbors and different spine densities, compared to Golgi-Cox-stained BLA neurons. Our results demonstrate important differences and provide methodological insights into quantitative disparities of BLA principal neuron morphology reported in the literature.
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Brain Sci. 2017 Dec 19;7(12). pii: brainsci7120165. doi: 10.3390/brainsci7120165. Link to article on publisher's site