Figure 7.
Celecoxib treatment after experimental SAH. (a) Whole brain fluorescent imaging from ventral perspective 24 h after SAH or sham procedure, treated with selective Cox2 inhibitor celecoxib or vehicle. Left ventral region demarcated by yellow marking. Cadaverine dye fluorescence shown in red. (b) Quantification of cadaverine dye fluorescence in left ventral region. (c) Merged double-stained immunofluorescent confocal microscopy of coronal brain slices 24 h after SAH treated with celecoxib or vehicle (NeuN (neuronal marker) = red, Caspase-3 (apoptosis marker) = green). Apoptotic neurons noted in yellow. (d) Semi-automated apoptotic neuronal count from left ventral region of coronal brain slices. n = 3–4 per group. Data presented as means ± SEM. One-way ANOVA with Holm-Sidak post-hoc correction. *p < 0.05.