Figure 7.

Correlational analysis of grip-strength recovery with respect to neural stem/precursor cell (NPC) graft, tissue sparing, and lesion formation. (A): Functional strength improvement following NPC engraftment was found to be strongly proportional to the length of NPC grafts. (B): Grip strength also exhibited a strong positive correlation to white matter present in vehicle (blue) and NPC (red) groups. (C, D): Forelimb strength was also found to exhibit a strong inverse relationship to total lesion volume (C) and a weakly negative relationship to total CSPG⁺ extracellular matrix tissue deposition (D). Additional analyses can be found in supplemental online Table 1. Abbreviation: CSPG, chondroitin sulfate proteoglycan.