Fig. 2.

Improvement of functional deficits over 5 days after 90 min of transient MCAO in tau^−/− mice. a Neurological impairments of tau^−/− mice after 90 min of transient MCAO progressively improved over 5 days after the procedure (*p < 0.05; ***p < 0.001; N = 8; one-way ANOVA (Turkey post hoc)). b Example of a maximum infarct area 5 days after transient MCAO in tau^−/− mice. TTC stains viable brain tissue in serial sections red. c Volumetric analysis showed similar infarct volumes 24 h and 5 days after MCAO (not significant; N = 12 (day 1), N = 8 (day 5); Student’s t-test). All error bars are s.e.m