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Acknowledgements

Microscopic acquisition was performed in the Laboratory of Imaging Tissue Structure and Function -a service unit of the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology.

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This work was supported by the National Science Center grant (2013/08/M/NZ3/00655). Grzegorz Wilczynski was partially supported by the European Regional Development Fund POIG 01.01.02–00-008/08. Adam Gorlewicz was partially supported by the National Science Center grant (2015/19/D/NZ7/02402). Andrzej A. Szczepankiewicz was partially supported by the National Science Center grant (2014/15/N/NZ3/04468). Pawel Trzaskoma was partially supported by the National Science Center grant (2014/15/N/NZ2/00379).

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Gorlewicz, A., Krawczyk, K., Szczepankiewicz, A.A. et al. Colocalization Colormap –an ImageJ Plugin for the Quantification and Visualization of Colocalized Signals. Neuroinform 18, 661–664 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12021-020-09465-9

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