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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Orthop Res. 2009 Jul;27(7):931–936. doi: 10.1002/jor.20793

Figure 1.

Figure 1

BBB locomotor rating analysis of the four spinal cord injury groups: 1) contusion injury without glial scar resection, 2) contusion injury with glial scar resection, 3) dorsal hemisection injury without glial scar resection, 4) dorsal hemisection injury with glial scar resection. Within the dorsal hemisection group, there is no significant difference in BBB scores between specimens in which the glial scar was resected and nonresection controls (p = 0.61). Specimens in the contusion group that underwent scar resection demonstrated significantly worse functional scores relative to nonresection controls throughout most of the recovery period (p < 0.05). Both hemisection groups (resected and nonresected) demonstrated significantly higher recovery scores relative to either of the contusion groups (p < 0.005 for all comparisons between hemisection and contusion groups). Error bars represent standard error.