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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jun 2.
Published in final edited form as: Neuroscience. 2012 Oct 25;228:301–308. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2012.10.039

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Lack of astrocyte activation in the ipsilateral spinal dorsal horn of female control virgin rats, 17 days after SNL surgery. (A) Representative GFAP immunoreactive sections from postpartum and control (virgin females) rats (top and bottom panel, respectively) and detail of the superficial laminas of the spinal cord visualized by avidin-biotin complex method. (B) GFAP immunoreactivity increases in the ipsilateral spinal dorsal horn of postpartum (PP) rats but not control (virgin females) rats after SNL surgery. Scale bar=100μm (left panels) and 50 μm (right panels). Data are presented as median (horizontal line) ± 25th and 75th percentiles, n=7 in each group, Rank sum Test, *p <0.05 compared to PP Sham and to control SNL.