Treatment with rAAV.EpoR76E after blast decreased the number of TUNEL-positive cells at 1-month post-blast in Balb/c mice. (A-C) Representative fluorescence micrographs of clusters of TUNEL-positive cells in retinas from mice injected with: (A) rAAV.eGFP, (B) rAAV.EpoR76E 1-month prior to blast (pre-blast), or (C) rAAV.EpoR76E 1-day after blast (post-blast). TUNEL (red), DAPI (blue). Scale bar represents 50μm. (D, E) Scatter plots of the number of clusters of TUNEL-positive cells (D) and the density of TUNEL-positive cells within each cluster (E). Mice treated with rAAV.EpoR76E post-blast had fewer TUNEL-positive cells within each cluster, **p<0.01. Red boxes indicate statistically significant difference in variance between rAAV.eGFP and both rAAV.EpoR76E treatment groups.