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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Dec 1.
Published in final edited form as: Transl Stroke Res. 2012 Aug 8;3(4):473–481. doi: 10.1007/s12975-012-0206-5

Fig. 5.

Fig. 5

Photomicrographs of the (a) lung, (b) kidney (magnification bar: 200 μm), (c) liver (magnification bar: 100 μm), and (d) small intestine (magnification bar=300 μm) from nonirradiated rats with MCAO (ai-di) and irradiated on the spleen at 4 hrs after ischemia (aii-dii). All organs were harvested at the time of euthanization 7 days post ischemia. (aii) The histological analysis showed no signs of increased microbial load in the lungs after splenic irradiation. (bii-dii) Absence of tissue damage in the abdominal organs after splenic irradiation