Research Article
Increased Nerve Growth Factor Signaling in Sensory Neurons of Early Diabetic Rats Is Corrected by Electroacupuncture
Table 3
Post hoc comparisons within different sets of data presented in Table
2 performed using the Tukey’s HSD test.
| Skin | Tissue intensity | Vesicles number | Vesicles intensity | Diameter (μm) |
| STZ/CTRL | TrkA | ↑NS | ↑NS | ↓NS | ↓NS | p75NTR | ↑* | ↑* | ↑* | ↑NS | STZ + EA/STZ | TrkA | = | ↓NS | = | ↑NS | p75NTR | ↓NS | ↓
*
| ↓NS | ↓NS |
| Spinal cord | Tissue intensity | Terminals number | Terminals intensity | Diameter (μm) |
| STZ/CTRL | TrkA | ↑* | ↑NS | ↑* | ↓NS | p75NTR | ↓NS | ↓NS | ↓
*
| ↑NS | STZ + EA/STZ | TrkA | ↓
*
| = | ↓NS | ↓NS | p75NTR | ↑NS | ↑NS | ↑NS | ↓NS |
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↑: increase. ↓: decrease. =: no variation. NS: not significant; *.
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