Effect of Alcohol on Diffuse Axonal Injury in Rat Brainstem: Diffusion Tensor Imaging and Aquaporin-4 Expression Study

Figure 10

Colored bars represent the mean AQP4 expression in the rat brainstem in the control, A, T, and AT groups. In the A group, there is a slight decrease of AQP4, reaching a minimum at 3 h, then increasing. Both in the T and AT groups, there is moderate increase in brainstem AQP4 expression, reaching a peak at 24 h. At 12 h following trauma, AQP4 are high in the T group than in the AT group.