Figure 1.
Cocoa enriched diets increase basal GLAST expression in spinal glial cells. Sections of spinal cord containing the STN were obtained from untreated animals (CON) and animals on a 10% cocoa enriched diet for 14 days (COCOA). (A) Representative images of spinal cord containing the STN stained for GLAST are shown. (B) The average fold-change ± SEM of GLAST staining intensity when compared to the mean of the control that was made equal to one is reported (n = 3 independent experiments). * p < 0.01 increase when compared to control. Magnification bar = 50 μm.