(A) Hematoxylin and eosin–stained representative rat brain sections 12 weeks post-transplantation from sham + hNSC (group 1) top left, group 2 (pTBI 1 week + hNSC), top right, group 4 (pTBI 2 week + hNSC), bottom left, and group 6 (pTBI 4 week + hNSC), bottom right, show the unilateral porencephalic cyst, varying cortical thinning in right hemisphere in the injured groups only; region with hNSC transplants is demarcated with the dashed white outline. Scale bar = 1 mm. (B) A scatterplot of lesion size (mean ± SEM) expressed as percentage of intact hemisphere (y-axis) and experimental groups (x-axis). One-way ANOVA followed by pair-wise comparison shows that mean lesion size ± SEM was statistically significant between sham (blue) versus group 7 (injury + vehicle group; red), indicating a robust injury effect (p < 0.001). Pair-wise comparison of group 7 (red) with group 2 (green), or group 4 (purple) or group 6 (orange) did not detect any significant differences (ns; F4,37 = 23.20, p = 0.084). ANOVA, analysis of variance; hNSC, human neural stem cell; ns, not statistically significant; pTBI, penetrating traumatic brain injury; SEM, standard error of the mean.