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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Nov 1.
Published in final edited form as: Exp Neurol. 2015 Aug 10;273:114–125. doi: 10.1016/j.expneurol.2015.08.007

Figure 6.

Figure 6

Dex-treatment reduces the loss of photoreceptors following saline-mediated retinal detachment. Retinas were obtained from eyes that received a subretinal injection of saline (control) or saline + soluble Dex (100ng) (treated), and tissues harvested 3 days later. Sections of the retina were labeled using the TUNEL method (a). Large arrows indicate regions of retina where the detachment occurred, and small arrows indicate TUNEL-positive nuclei. Abbreviations: ONL – outer nuclear layer, INL – inner nuclear layer, RPE – retinal pigmented epithelium. Histograms illustrate the mean (±SD) number of TUNEL-positive cells across all layers of the retina (b), INL (c) or ONL (d) in control and Dex-treated retinas. The scale bar denotes 50 μm. Significance of difference (*p<0.05, ***p<0.001, n=4) was determined by using a two-tailed t-test.