Table 3.

Effects of germline Cre recombination on incidence of epileptiform events

Cre genotypetTA genotypeGCaMP genotypeIncidence with germline Cre recombinationIncidence without germline Cre recombination
Emx1Camk2aAi939/1030/44
Ntsr1Camk2aAi935/9
Rbp4Camk2aAi934/40/11
RorbCamk2aAi935/80/3
  • “With germline Cre recombination”, mice that had lost Cre conditionality; “without”, mice that were normal, i.e. expressed GCaMP only in subsets of neurons according to the Cre driver line used. In this table, all mice were imaged with widefield calcium imaging of any size window.