FIGURE 7.
Combination therapy regulates inflammatory cytokine levels and prevents apoptosis in the spinal cord at 7 days post-SCI. (A) Levels of TNF-α, (B) level of IL-10 in the spinal cord were detected by ELISA on day 7 after the sham operation (n = 3/group). #P < 0.05, ##P < 0.01 versus SCI, +P < 0.05, + +P < 0.01 versus MSC. (C) The protein expression level, determined by Western blot analysis, in the injured spinal epicenter of SCI rat at 7 dpi. Data are presented as mean ± SEM, *P < 0.05, **P < 0.01, and ***P < 0.001 versus sham. # versus SCI or vehicle. One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) variance followed by Tukey’s post-hoc analysis.
