Table I.

Assessment of locomotive recovery of rats from sham, injury, inhibitor, or methylprednisolone administration groups 10 days after operation via BBB scoring.

BBB score and difference	Group
	Sham	Model	Inhibitor	Me
BBB score	19.30±0.95	5.40±0.84	7.70±0.82	7.40±0.70
P-value		<0.001a	<0.001a	<0.001a
P-value			<0.001b	<0.001b
P-value			0.391c

^aP<0.05 vs. the sham group,

^bP<0.05 vs. the model group;

^cP<0.05 vs. the Me group.

Me, methylprednisolone; BBB, Basso Beattie Bresnahan.