Table 2.

Normalized values of biochemical components in regions of interest (ROI) at both sides.

	ROI	Total Lipid	Total Protein	Lipid/Protein	CH2/Lipid	CH3/Lipid	Olefin/Lipid	Lipid Ester/Lipid
Contra-lesional	GM	0.69 ± 0.022 *	14.881 ± 0.043 *	5.887 ± 0.0013 **	0.233 ± 0.0001 **	0.165 ± 0.0003 **	0.0032 ± 0.0003 **	0.063 ± 0.0051 **
	WM	1.39 ± 0.072 *	9.061 ± 0.0014 *	6.991 ± 0.0013 **	0.341 ± 0.0002 **	0.281 ± 0.0002 **	0.0045 ± 0.0003 **	0.086 ± 0.0031 **
Ipsi-lesional	PIZ	0.59 ± 0.032 **	11.003 ± 0.012 **	5.256 ± 0.0033 **	0.194 ± 0.0002 **	0.394 ± 0.0003 **	0.0052 ± 0.0005 **	0.057 ± 0.0062 **
	WM	0.93 ± 0.052 **	8.995 ± 0.0014 **	6.367 ± 0.0013 **	0.125 ± 0.0001 **	0.399 ± 0.0006 **	0.0062 ± 0.0003 **	0.067 ± 0.0033 **

The values are shown as ‘mean ± standard deviation’ for each group. The degree of significance is denoted as: * p < 0.05, ** p < 0.0001 and obtained by comparing each treated group with the control group. ROI: regions of interest; GM: gray matter; WM: white matter; PIZ: peri-infract zone.