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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Apr 30.
Published in final edited form as: Mol Cell Neurosci. 2007 Feb 23;35(1):171–182. doi: 10.1016/j.mcn.2007.02.012

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Numbers of astrocytes expressing S100β in the Bmpr double knockout mice is reduced as compared to normal mice but does not achieve statistical significance.

Spinal cords were removed from normal and Bmpr double knockout animals at P0 and processed for cyrosectioning and immunocytochemistry using antibody to S100β. A) Section of dorsolateral spinal cord shows that the number of S100β+ cells is somewhat decreased, especially in the grey matter. The scale bar in A equals 50μm. B) Cell counts were performed at 20 X magnification on 3 cervical spinal cord sections from each of five double knockout animals from five separate litters. Cells were deemed positive if they had a DAPI+ nucleus surrounded by a rim of S100β+ cytoplasm. A decrease of 25% is noted which is not statistically significant (P = 0.052).