The presented work was part of a larger study focusing on several components of the NVU in the same stroke model, thus allowing the comparison of its findings with previously published data on ischemia-induced alterations of the vasculature and astrocytic endfeet (Hawkes et al., 2013) and neuronal markers such as the microtubule-associated protein tau (Michalski et al., 2016), as well as the vesicular glutamate transporters 1 – 3 and the vesicular GABA transporter (Michalski et al., 2013). This evidence concerns the gene MAPT and ischemia.