FIG. 5.

(A) Representative photomicrographs of striatal neuronal marker staining (green). Nuclei were counterstained with DAPI (blue; magnification×400; scale bar=50 μm; DAPI, 4′,6-diamidino-2-phenylindole). (B) The cell counting study shows that the number of DARPP-32-positive cells significantly decreased 24–72 h after bilateral common carotid artery occlusion (BCCAO) compared with sham animals (n=4; *p<0.01; DARPP-32, anti-dopamine and cyclic AMP-regulated phosphoprotein of relative molecular weight 32,000). However, the number of ChAT-positive cells and SST-positive cells did not change after BCCAO (S, sham control; ChAT, anti-choline acetyltransferase; SST, anti-somatostatin). Color image is available online at www.liebertpub.com/neu.