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Figure 1 | Behavioral and Brain Functions

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From: Comparative study between bone marrow mononuclear fraction and mesenchymal stem cells treatment in sensorimotor recovery after focal cortical ablation in rats

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Extension of the lesion induced by ablation. (A) Sequential images of coronal brain slices of a representative ablated animal stained with TTC, showing the extension of the lesion in the anterior-posterior axis. Unilateral ablation removed the six cortical layers in the dorsal portion of the hemisphere, reaching white matter. The medial-lateral and anterior-posterior extensions of the lesion were made to reproduce the same extension of cortical lesion made by thermocoagulation in previous studies [3]. (B) Images captured from coronal brain slices of a thermocoagulated ischemic animal analyzed in a previous study, to illustrate the highly similar lesion extension of both protocols of injury. Calibration bars = 1 cm. In (A) and (B), from top to bottom, images were placed from most anterior to most posterior portion of the lesion. Black (A) and white (B) arrows point to the place of the lesion induced by the respective protocol of surgery.

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