. 2010 May 27;7:7. doi: 10.1186/1743-8454-7-7

Table 1.

Cortical thickness of all regions (parietal, occipital 1 and occipital 2) and locations (dorsal, lateral and temporal) in the four groups of experimental animals (n = 5 for all groups).

	Mean cortical thickness in mm ± SD
Cortical Region	Control no minocycline	Control with minocycline	Untreated hydrocephalic	Minocycline-treated hydrocephalic

*Parietal*
Dorsal	1.44 ± 0.13	1.32 ± 0.27	0.55 ± 0.27 ⁺⁺⁺	0.76 ± 0.34 ^{ββ, #, δδ}
Lateral	1.78 ± 0.11	1.41 ± 0.14	0.71 ± 0.32	1.12 ± 0.67
Temporal	1.59 ± 0.21	1.79 ± 0.53	0.33 ± 0.16 ⁺⁺⁺	0.58 ± 0.37 ^{βββ, ###, δδδ}

*Occipital 1*
Dorsal	1.26 ± 0.13	1.25 ± 0.18	0.34 ± 0.09**	0.61 ± 0.15 ^{βββ, ###,δδδ}
Lateral	1.29 ± 0.11	1.23 ± 0.12	0.35 ± 0.12 *^{, +++}	0.74 ± 0.28
Temporal	1.24 ± 0.14	1.17 ± 0.30	0.21 ± 0.12 **^{, +++}	0.59 ± 0.24

*Occipital 2*
Dorsal	2.04 ± 0.27	1.04 ± 0.15	0.33 ± 0.09 *^{, +++}	0.45 ± 0.11 ^{ββ, ##, δδ}
Lateral	3.60 ± 0.78	1.29 ± 0.42	0.28 ± 0.14 ⁺⁺⁺	0.48 ± 0.24 ^{βββ, ###, δδδ}
Temporal	3.47 ± 0.31	1.31 ± 0.64	0.31 ± 0.11 ⁺⁺	0.48 ± 0.23 ^ββ,^{###, δδ}

*, **, p < 0.05 and 0.01; Untreated hydrocephalic compared to control no minocycline.

++, +++, p < 0.01 and 0.001; Untreated hydrocephalics compared to control with minocycline.

ββ, βββ, p < 0.01 and 0.001; Minocycline-treated hydrocephalic compared to untreated hydrocephalic.

#, ##, ###, p < 0.05, 0.01 and 0.001; Minocycline-treated hydrocephalic compared to control no minocycline.

δ δ, δ δ δ, p < 0.01 and 0.001; Minocycline-treated hydrocephalic compared to control with minocycline.