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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Oct 7.
Published in final edited form as: J Comp Neurol. 2017 Jul 24;525(16):3414–3428. doi: 10.1002/cne.24269

FIGURE 4.

FIGURE 4

No sex differences in spinal or medullary aromatase expression. (a) Male and female mice have comparable numbers of β-gal+ cells in the cSTN and NST. Number of β-gai+ cells per section ± SEM—cSTN, males: 54.6 ± 5.9 and females: 56.1 ± 4.8; NST, males: 10.5 ± 0.60 and females: 8.9 ± 0.85. Unpaired t test— cSTN, p = .84; NST, p = .18. n = 5 males, 6 females (3–4 sections per animal). (b) Male and female mice also have comparable numbers of β-gal+ cells in cervical, thoracic, lumbar, and sacral spinal cord segments. Number of β-gal+ cells per section ± SEM— cervical, males: 6.7 ± 1.1 and females: 6.4 ± 0.71; thoracic, males: 6.4 ± 1.6 and females: 8.0 ± 1.9; lumbar, males: 7.4 ± 0.94 and females: 6.6 ± 1.1; sacral, males: 7.3 ± 0.83 and females: 7.5 ± 1.1. Two-way ANOVA—effect of sex: F(1,41) = 0.031, p = .86; effect of segment: F(3,41) = 0.17, p = .92; interaction: F(3,41) = 0.40, p = .75. n = 6 males, 5 females (4–6 sections counted per animal at each spinal region)