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. 2017 Oct 27;8:1164. doi: 10.1038/s41467-017-01283-z

Fig. 5.

Fig. 5

EphB1 and STAT3 expression patterns in the ventral horn of wild type and SOD1G93A-ALS mice. a Schematic diagram and immunofluorescence images showing very low levels of EphB1 immunolabelling in ChAT-positive motor neurons (MNs) in the ventral horn (VH) of unlesioned wild type (WT) and SOD1-mutant mice. White boxes represent the corresponding cells magnified in the insets for each group. b Immunofluoresence demonstrating ALDH1L1-positive astrocytes (ACs) with nuclear STAT3 (nSTAT3) immunostaining (arrows) in unlesioned WT and SOD1-mutant mice. c Graph demonstrates the mean of the EphB1-labelled proportion of ChAT-positive motor neurons in the two groups (n = 4; p = 0.476, unpaired t-test). d Graph demonstrates the mean of the nSTAT3-labelled proportion of ALDH1L1-positive astrocytes in the two groups (n = 4; p = 0.821, unpaired t-test). e Schematic diagram and immunofluorescence images demonstrating EphB1 positivity (arrows) corresponding with ChAT-labelled motor neurons in the ipsilateral (IL) and contralateral (CL) VH of mice following right-sided sciatic nerve (SN) transection. f Graph shows the mean values of fold changes in the proportion of EphB1-labelled motor neurons in the IL VHs when normalised to the CL side (n = 4, p = 0.956 for day 1; n = 3, *p = 0.011 for day 7, unpaired t-test). g Schematic diagram and immunostained tissue sections demonstrating ALDH1L1-positive astrocytes with nSTAT3 IR (arrows). h Graph shows mean values of fold changes in the proportion of nSTAT3-positive astrocytes in the IL VHs normalised to the CL side (n = 3 controls, n = 4 SOD1, p = 0.227 for day 1; n = 4, *p = 0.010 for day 7, unpaired t-test). Data is expressed as mean ± SEM. Scale bar: 40 μm (20 μm for insets)