FIG. 3.
Chemokine transcript up-regulation in hippocampal tissue from the ipsilateral (i.d.) dorsal or contralateral (c.d.) dorsal side of sham-operated (Sham) or cortically injured (CCI) male rats at 1, 7 and 30 days post-injury. Ccl2 (A, i.d. and C, c.d.) and Ccl7 (B, i.d. and D, c.d.) mRNA levels, determined by qRT-PCR, are expressed as fold increase over corresponding control values and represent means±standard error of the mean of 3 samples (animals) for each condition. *p<0.05; **p<0.01; versus the corresponding control (Student's t-test). CCI, controlled cortical impact; mRNA, messenger RNA; Ccl2, chemokine (C-C motif) ligand.