Figure 6From: Acute and delayed neuroinflammatory response following experimental penetrating ballistic brain injury in the ratDelayed inflammation. Delayed inflammatory response of the thalamus to PBBI. Both activated astrocytes (GFAP) and microglial cells (OX-18) were observed from 72 h to 7 days post-injury and corresponded to an increase in fiber degeneration (silver staining). Bar = 100 μm.Back to article page