Fig. 3

Decreased contactin-3 expression in cortical tubers during early postnatal period. A – western blot for contactin-3 in autopsy-derived control samples (age range: 6 weeks-3 years) and cortical tuber samples (age range: 8 months-3 years); B – optical density analysis showed a lower (fold change = − 3.8, p < 0.001) contactin-3 expression in cortical tubers (n = 7) compared to controls (n = 7); W – weeks, M – months, Y – years of age; median, ***p < 0.001, Mann-Whitney U test