Injured spinal cords of six rats from each group were removed at 1, 7, 14, 28 days and fixed in paraformaldehyde after cardiac perfusion. Serial sections (4 μm) were cut from a paraffin block. The sections were dewaxed and hydrated, and then were incubated for 2.5 min with 0.01 mol/L of citrate buffer for antigen thermal remediation. Endogenous peroxidase activity was quenched with a 10 min incubation in 3% H 2 O 2 at 37 C. These sections were blocked in 2% BSA for 10 min at 37 C and then were incubated with primary antibody for 16 hr at 4 C. The primary antibodies were anti-DLL1 antibody (
ab76655) (1:1,600; Abcam, USA), anti-Presenilin1 (EP2000Y) antibody (
ab76083) (1:100; Abcam), anti-Hes1 (EPR4226) antibody (
ab108937) (1:300, Abcam) and anti-Hes5 antibody (
ab107593) (1:400, Abcam). The sections were incubated with secondary antibody for 40 min at 37 C after washing with phosphate buffered saline (PBS). The sections were washed with PBS and stained with diaminobenzidine (DAB) solution for 5 min. The slices were observed under a light microscope, BX53 (Olympus Corporation, Japan). Microscopic pictures of the spinal cord tissue were captured at Â400 magnification, and Image-Pro plus 6.0 software was used to calculate the integral optical density (IOD) values of six images from each group.
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