Figure 1.
Spinal cord tissue metallothionein (MT) levels of rats submitted to either spinal cord injury or sham operation and evaluated at 12 (a) and 24 h (b) after surgery and treated with saline solution (SS) or MT (10 μg/rat). Sham: rats without spinal cord injury; SCI: rats at two times after spinal cord injury. The results are expressed as mean ± SEM of 8 to 11 animals per group, ∗different from the sham/SS group (p < 0.05). One-way ANOVA followed by Tukey's test.