Thorase is a preconditioning induced gene. (a) Immunoblot of Thorase expression over time after OGD preconditioning (15 min OGD) in primary cultured cortical neurons. (b) Quantification of the data in (a) normalized to β-tubulin. Data are the mean ± standard error of the mean (SEM) from three independent experiments, **p < 0.01, *p < 0.05 by ANOVA with Tukey–Kramer post hoc test compared with no OGD preconditioning treatment “0”. (c) Immunoblot of Thorase expression over time after NMDA preconditioning (50 µM, 5 min) in primary cortical neurons. (d) Quantification of the data in (c) normalized to β-tubulin. Data are the mean ± SEM from three independent experiments, **p < 0.01, *p < 0.05 by ANOVA with Tukey–Kramer post hoc test compared with no NMDA preconditioning treatment “0”. (e) Immunoblot of Thorase expression in the cortex 24 h after 15 min IPC. Contralateral cortex was used as a control. (f) Quantification of the data in (e) normalized to β-tubulin. **p < 0.01 (n = 6) by Student's t test.