FIGURE 4.
Olfactory mucosa mesenchymal stem cells (OM-MSCs) alleviated neuronal apoptosis and oxidative stress in ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) rats. (A,B) Apoptosis of ipsilateral brain samples was evaluated by flow cytometry analysis. (C) Representative images of NeuN and TUNEL double immunostaining (scale bar, 40 μm). (D,E) Lipid peroxidation (LPO) and total superoxide dismutase (T-SOD) levels of ipsilateral brain samples were measured by the LPO assay and T-SOD assay kits, respectively. Data are shown as the mean ± SEM (n = 3 animals per group). *p ≤ 0.05, compared with the sham group and &p ≤ 0.05, compared with the I/R group.