Fig. 10

Cresyl violet-stained sections to assess cell death. Both coronal rat brain sections are taken at the level of the barrel cortex where imaging or APOX electrode recordings have taken place. a shows an example from the vehicle group and b from the IL-1β-treated group. Ipsilateral is the side where the injection and data acquisition took place. Neither hemisphere of both groups showed signs of cell death 6 h after injection. Scale bar = 50 μm