Materials
| Name | Company | Catalog Number | Comments |
| Millicell Cell Culture Insert, 12 mm, hydrophilic PTFE (Biopore), 0.4 μm |
Millipore | PICM01250 | |
| Insulin syringe, 1 ml | Beckton Dickinson | 309659 | |
| Scissors | Fine Science Tools | 15003-08 | dissection |
| Forceps, Dumont #55, inox | Fine Science Tools | 11255-20 | dissection |
| Cryostat | Leica | various | |
| Confocal Microscope System | Nikon | various | |
| Capillary glass | World Precision Instruments | 1B150F-4 | |
| P-97 Flaming/Brown Micropipette Puller | Sutter Instrument Co. | ||
| Picospritzer III | Parker Hannifin | ||
| Glass Bottom Culture Dishes | MatTek Corporation | P35G-0-14-C | |
| Petri dish | Falcon | 1008 | |
| Disposable Graduated Transfer Pipettes | VWR | 16001-180 | |
| Multiwell plates, 24-well | Beckton Dickinson | 351147 | |
| Cover glass, #1 | Electron Microscopy Sciences | 72200-30 | |
| Polysine adhesion slides | Electron Microscopy Sciences | 63412-01 | |
| Microscope slides | Globe | 1301 | |
| Liquid Blocker | Electron Microscopy Sciences | 71312 | |
| VECTASHIELD mounting medium | Vector Laboratories | H-1000 | |
| OCT medium | Sakura | 4583 | |
| Parafilm laboratory film | Fisher | 13-374-10 | |
| Dow Corning high vacuum grease | Sigma-Aldrich | Z273554 | |
| Mouse anti-PSD95 | Millipore | MABN68 | antibody |
| Donkey anti-mouse Alexa 568 | Invitrogen | A10037 | antibody |
| Isolectin Alexa 488 | Invitrogen | I21411 | |
| Chemiblocker | Chemicon | 2170S | |
| Triton X-100 | Sigma-Aldrich | T9284 | |
| Sulforhodamine | Sigma-Aldrich | 341738 | |
| Carbodiimide | Thermo Scientific | 22980 | EDC |
| Paraformaldehyde | Sigma-Aldrich | P6148 |
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