Ethanol Extract of Chinese Propolis Facilitates Functional Recovery of Locomotor Activity after Spinal Cord Injury
Figure 3
EECP reduced the lesion size in the injured spinal cord. Vehicle or EECP (1 mg/kg) was daily administered to rats with SCI. Fluorescence photographs of immunoreactivity of GFAP in the SCI lesion site of the vehicle-treated group () (a)) and in that of the EECP-treated group () (b)) are shown. The area surrounded by the dashed line (lesion size, (a), (b)) was compared between the EECP-treated and the vehicle-treated groups (c). The lesion size of the EECP-treated group was significantly smaller than that of the vehicle-treated group on experimental day 14. The left side is rostral. Significance of differences from vehicle-treated group was determined by using Student’s -test. versus vehicle-treated group. Scale bar: (a), (b), 200 .
