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. 2013 Aug 25;8(24):2236–2248. doi: 10.3969/j.issn.1673-5374.2013.24.003

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Effect of combined GDAs^BMP and hr-decorin transplantation on the ratio between the cavity and cross-sectional areas in the contusive spinal cord of rats.

The cavity and cross-sectional areas of spinal cord in the glial fibrillary acidic protein-positive astrocyte fluorescence image were measured and analyzed with Image Pro Plus 6.0 software, and calculated by pixels. The ratio between the cavity area and cross-sectional area of the blank group gradually increased to the maximum compared with the treatment groups at 28 days after spinal cord contusion (^aP < 0.05), while the hr-decorin treatment group and the GDAs^BMP transplantation group slowly decreased. The combined GDAs^BMP and hr-decorin transplantation group increased and then decreased compared with the blank and the GDAs^BMP transplantation groups at 28 days after spinal cord contusion (^bP < 0.05). Data are expressed as mean ± SD of six rats for each group (two-sample t-test and one-way analysis of variance).

Blank: Spinal cord injury group; Hr-decorin: human recombinant decorin injection group; GDAs^BMP: glial-restricted precursor-derived astrocytes induced by bone morphogenetic protein-4 transplantation group; GDAs^BMP + Hr-decorin: combined GDAs^BMP and hr-decorin transplantation group.