A maximum of 4 burr holes, 2 in each hemisphere, were used to inject pLKO_EGFP_Lox-STOP-Lox_ Gsto2 -shRNA or scrambled shRNA viral vectors by following specific stereotaxic coordinates
Membranes were probed using antibodies to FoxO1 (1:2500, 18592-1AP, Proteintech, Chicago, IL, USA), SOD2 (1:6000, 66474-1lg, Proteintech, Chicago, IL, USA), NOX4 (1:600, 14347-1-AP, Proteintech, Chicago, IL, USA), and -actin (1:2000, AM10218-400, Abgent) as the primary antibodies
Acknowledgments We thank Haiyan Yu, Xiaomin Zhao and Yuyu Guo from Core Facilities for Life and Environmental Sciences of SKLMT (State Key Laboratory of Microbial Technology, Shandong University) for the assistance in LSM900 Super Resolution Laser Scanning Confocal Microscope analysis

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