Employing Endogenous NSCs to Promote Recovery of Spinal Cord Injury

Figure 1

Transverse sections show an elevated expression of nestin in the rat central canal (CC). (a) Intact spinal cord. (b) 3 days after injury. (c and d) Magnified CC of the insets in (a) and (b), respectively. Nestin, green; DAPI, blue. Arrows show the Nestin⁺ cells. Scale bars: (a and b): 200 μm; (c and d): 50 μm.

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