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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 May 6.
Published in final edited form as: J Neurosurg. 2015 Aug 21;124(3):675–686. doi: 10.3171/2015.1.JNS141571

FIG. 6.

FIG. 6

Immunohistochemical assessment of microglial/macrophage activation. Representative image of 25-μm-thick coronal sections of sham-injured and blast-injured rat brains after immunofluorescence staining for the microglial/macrophage marker Iba1 (red) indicating glial activation or macrophage infiltration. Sham-injured sections (A). Blast-injured tissue sections (B). All images correspond to ventral areas of interest from Fig. 5E and F. Digitally zoomed insets (right) highlight the characteristic amoeboid, “activated” morphology of Iba-1+ cells after mBINT (B) as compared with the stellate, “resting state” morphology of Iba-1+ cells in sham-injured animals (A). Bar = 10 μm (A and B) and 5 μm (insets). Figure is available in color online only.