Supplementary Figure 2: Characterization of spinal cord contusion in rats.

(a) Photograph of a coronal section through the contusion epicenter (GFAP, Glial fibrillary acidic protein), which was used to trace the contour of the contusion cavity, as illustrated below. Scale bar, 250 µm. (b) The contours of the lesion cavity at the epicenter are shown for all the main experimental rats used for behavioral and anatomical evaluations. (c) The bar graph reports the area of spared tissue at the lesion epicenter for pooled non-trained (n = 14) and trained (n = 13) rats. ns, not significant; Non-paired Student’s t-test.