Figure 1.

Permanent MCAo induced ischemic lesion in the rat brain. (A) A representative rat coronal brain section shows the ischemic lesion 4 weeks after MCAo. An arrow indicates the location of BDA injection in the right cortex. Rectangle fields in the left cortex (1) and corpus callosum (2) indicate the position of the photomicrograph appearing in Figures 2 and 3, respectively. (B) Quantitative data show no statistical difference in the ischemic lesion size between animal groups treated with PBS or BMSCs. Scale bar=2 mm.