Table 2.

RA neuronal attributes across hemispheres after infusion with BDNF, comparison among doses (mean ± SEM)

	Vehicle controls	BDNF 0.67 mg/ml	BDNF 1.0 mg/ml	BDNF 1.5 mg/ml	Two-way repeated-measures ANOVA
					Treatment		Side		Interaction
					F	p	F	p	F	p
Somatic area (μm2)					3.92	0.037	4.15	0.064	9.991	0.001
Ipsilateral	101.37 ± 6.56	128.94 ± 3.22	108.44 ± 6.83	132.95 ± 10.59
Contralateral	103.72 ± 4.61	138.59 ± 1.71	101.04 ± 7.60	111.63 ± 9.16
Density (neurons/mm3)					0.839	0.498	10.23	0.008	6.023	0.01
Ipsilateral	6.07 × 104 ±5.26 × 103	4.83 × 104 ±2.41 × 103	5.06 × 104 ±5.82 × 103	5.12 × 104 ±3.70 × 103
Contralateral	5.94 × 104 ±5.34 × 103	4.86 × 104 ±4.44 × 103	5.55 × 104 ±5.46 × 103	6.43 × 104 ±6.86 × 103
Neuron number					1.934	0.18	0.144	0.71	0.755	0.54
Ipsilateral	1.40 × 104 ±0.61 × 103	1.70 × 104 ±0.20 × 103	1.33 × 104 ±1.60 × 103	1.33 × 104 ±1.50 × 103
Contralateral	1.38 × 104 ±0.53 × 103	1.73 × 104 ±1.71 × 103	1.26 × 104 ±0.41 × 103	1.49 × 104 ±1.82 × 103