Fig. 2

Surface coating determines neuronal adhesion pattern. a–c Confocal fluorescence images of rat hippocampal neurons that were plated with the same density onto MG-, LN- and PDL- coated surfaces at 6 h after plating. Hoechst with blue pseudo-color labels the nucleus and red colored neuronal marker Tuj1 specifically labels neurons. d Normalized relative neighborhood density(see text for details) illustrating the extent of clustering on MG (red), LN (blue) and PDL (green) respectively. Scale bar 100 µm