Fig. 8: Timeline of animal assay and motor function score. | Nature Communications

Fig. 8: Timeline of animal assay and motor function score.

From: Microenvironment-responsive immunoregulatory electrospun fibers for promoting nerve function recovery

Fig. 8

a Pictures of animal experiments and tissue collection timeline. Image of (1) the responsive fiber bundle, (2) the fully exposed T9 spinal cord, (3) 3 mm hemi-section made in the right site of the T9 spinal cord (the yellow arrow indicated the injured site), (4) implanted fiber bundles (the yellow arrow indicated the fiber bundle implantation position) along with (5), (6), (7), (8) post-operation condition of rat at 7 days, 4 weeks, and 8 weeks (3 independent experiments). b Evaluation of motor function recovery of lower limb by BBB score in rats assisted by c rats’ motor function IPT score (n = 7, all values were mean ± std. dev., *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01 when comparing MSaP-aL/p and other spinal cord injury groups at the same time point via two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) with Tukey’s post hoc test).

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