. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Jun 8.

Published in final edited form as: Nat Neurosci. 2004 Jul 11;7(8):812–818. doi: 10.1038/nn1283

Table 2.

Quantitative analysis of proprioceptive neurons in wild-type and transgenic mouse lines

	WT	TrkA^TrkC/TrkC) (% of WT)	Myo/NT3 (% of WT)	TrkA^TrkC/TrkC;Myo/NT3 (% of WT)
Parvalbumin⁺ S1	108 ± 8 (n = 3)	232 ± 25 (n = 3)	219 ± 34 (n = 3)	534 ± 38 (n = 3)
		215%^**	203%^**	494%^**
Parvalbumin⁺ L5	188 ± 18 (n = 3)	517 ± 60 (n = 3)	497 ± 22 (n = 3)	1,069 ± 116 (n = 3)
		275%^**	264%^**	569%^**
Parvalbumin⁺ L4	578 ± 17 (n = 3)	771 ± 29 (n = 3)	895 ± 20 (n = 3)	1,466 ± 77 (n = 3)
		133%^**	154%^**	254%^**
Parvalbumin⁺ L3	435 ± 37 (n = 3)	592 ± 48 (n = 3)	745 ± 41 (n = 3)	989 ± 42 (n = 3)
		136%^**	171%^**	227%^**
Parvalbumin⁺ L2	239 ± 19 (n = 3)	392 ± 13 (n = 3)	336 ± 35 (n = 3)	654 ± 32 (n = 3)
		164%^**	140%^**	274%^**
Soleus spindles	10 ± 0.5 (n = 3)	31 ± 3 (n = 3)	14 ± 2 (n = 5)	109 ± 14 (n = 5)
		310%^**	140%^*	1,090%^**
Extensor digitorium	15 ± 0.6 (n = 3)	25 ± 1 (n = 3)	30 ± 2 (n = 5)	53 ± 4 (n = 5)
longus spindles		166%^**	200%^**	350%^**

	Bax^-/-	TrkA^TrkC/TrkC;Bax^-/- (% of Bax^-/-
Parvalbumin⁺ L5	192 ± 0.5 (n = 2)	951 ± 143 (n = 2)
		459%^*
Parvalbumin⁺ L4	661 ± 26 (n = 2)	1,316 ± 115 (n = 2)
		199%^*
Soleus spindles1	11 ± 2 (n = 2)	82 ± 12 (n = 2)
		700%^*

Values shown are mean ± s.d. for counts of parvalbumin-positive neurons and muscle spindles (n = number of animals used for each count). Statistical significance was tested for percentages using unpaired Student’s t-test:

^**

P < 0.01

P < 0.05. S1 sacral 1 sensory ganglia.