Table 2. mRNA Expression in Ipsilateral Cortex of Rats^a.

	expression fold change from sham
gene	3 h	8 h	12 h	16 h	24 h
COX-1	0.29, p < 0.05	–0.28, p < 0.05	ns	–0.3, p < 0.05	ns
COX-2	3.2, p < 0.0001	ns	0.5, p < 0.01	ns	ns
EP2	2.4, p < 0.05	ns	ns	ns	ns
IL-1β	92, p < 0.0001	10.7, p < 0.05	4.7, p < 0.01	1.8, p < 0.05	ns
IL-6	10.9, p < 0.05	ns	ns	ns	ns
mPGES1	22.5, p < 0.001	7.6, p < 0.05	3, p < 0.001	1.2, p < 0.05	ns
TNF-α	19.4, p < 0.0001	5, p < 0.01	4.9, p < 0.0001	2.2, p < 0.001	ns
caspase-1	–0.34, p < 0.01	ns	ns	ns	ns
GFAP	0.65, p < 0.05	2, p < 0.001	3.1, p < 0.0001	3.7, p < 0.0001	3.5, p < 0.01
CD11b	0.53, p < 0.05	2.4, p < 0.001	4.2, p < 0.0001	4.1, p < 0.0001	3.3, p < 0.001
IBA1	–0.45, p < 0.01	ns	ns	ns	ns
NOX2	ns	0.58, p < 0.01	0.7, p < 0.01	0.61, p < 0.05	1, p < 0.05

^ans = not statistically significant.