Table 1.
Brainstem motor neuron survival.
| Nucleus | 8 weeks |
12 weeks |
16 weeks |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WT | SOD | WT | SOD | WT | SOD | |
| ABD | 702.28 ± 75.99 | 726.64 ± 51.76 | 674.37 ± 78.58 | 547.41 ± 28.21 | 626.33 ± 54.54 | 534.60 ± 56.57 |
| TROC | 694.09 ± 123.38 | 567.98 ± 68.98 | 652.73 ± 54.39 | 535.31 ± 12.60 | 555.36 ± 26.21 | 522.60 ± 81.27 |
| OCM | 825.57 ± 27.69 | 797.73 ± 71.05 | 840.26 ± 94.80 | 991.31 ± 206.68 | 1115.59 ± 76.70 | 1083.89 ± 105.71 |
| FACIAL | 6520.16 ± 268.96 | 6316.64 ± 208.42 | 7347.98 ± 245.82 | 5436.24 ± 248.86 | 6492.95 ± 428.05 | 4830.34 ± 314.00 |
| HYPO | 2782.85 ± 128.89 | 2330.10 ± 158.70 | 2347.10 ± 175.21 | 1868.40 ± 268.11 | 2614.57 ± 184.86 | 1568.94 ± 128.68 |
Stereological quantification of the number of motor neurons in the brainstem nuclei of WT and SOD mice at the different stages of survival. ABD: abducens; TROC: trochlear; OCM: oculomotor. Data are expressed as mean ± standard error of the mean.