Approximately 15 min after behavioral conditioning (or directly from the vial in www.selleckchem.com/products/pexidartinib-plx3397.html the case of the naive group), a 5- to 6-day-old male fly was aspirated, without anesthesia, into a narrow slot the width of a male fly in a custom-designed imaging chamber, while the remaining forward- and backward-conditioned flies were tested for behavioral memory. The fly head was oriented in one of

two ways. One set of flies were oriented in a manner that presented a frontal view of the MB lobes, allowing us to obtain simultaneous recordings of the aimpr and the V1 and MV1 innervations of the MBs, with a second deeper recording of the MP1 innervation of the MB heel. We alternated which plane was recorded first for every animal. A second set of flies was oriented with the head rotated slightly, allowing the simultaneous recording of the aimpr and the MP1 and MV1 innervation of the MBs. The eyes, proboscis, and front two legs

of the fly were restrained by using myristic acid. After placing a small piece of clear tape on the top surface of the slot containing the fly, a small square hole was cut out allowing access for dissection of the head cuticle. A small piece of the dorsal head cuticle was then removed along with the air sacs and fat bodies so that a clear optical path was created to the MBs. Fresh saline (103 mM NaCl, 3 mM KCl, 5 mM HEPES, 1.5 mM CaCl2, 4 mM MgCl2, 26 mM NaHCO3, 1 mM NaH2PO4, 10 mM trehalose, 7 mM sucrose, and 10 mM glucose [pH 7.2]) was perfused immediately across the brain Adriamycin datasheet to prevent desiccation and ensure the health of the fly. The remaining four legs and abdomen were free to move and

Ergoloid flies frequently kicked their legs and moved their abdomens. All animals included in the data showed vigorous leg and abdomen movements after the procedures, indicating that they maintained health across the recording time. Using a 20× water-immersion objective and a Leica TCS SP5 II confocal microscope with a 488 nm argon laser, we imaged the DAN innervation of the MBs at 2 Hz. We used one PMT channel (510–550 nm) to detect GCaMP3.0 fluorescence and a second PMT channel (610–700 nm) to detect RFP fluorescence. A region of interest (ROI) was drawn around the DAN innervation of the mushroom bodies or the aimpr, and the average F for that ROI was calculated across time for both the GCaMP3.0 and RFP channels in Image J, G(t) and R(t), respectively. All further analysis was done in MATLAB using custom-written algorithms. To correct for photobleaching, we first calculated baseline fluorescence for GCaMP3.0 (Gb(t)) and RFP (Rb(t)) by fitting a line to the minimums of 10 s bins of the recording. We then calculated the normalized GCaMP3.0 and RFP signals as: GN(t)(unitsof%ΔF/F)=100∗G(t)−Gb(t)Gb(t), RN(t)(unitsof%ΔF/F)=100∗R(t)−Rb(t)Rb(t).