Fig. 8

Assessment of functional recovery. Twenty-eight days post-SCI, BBB scores from the Systemic IL-10 group approached significance when compared to Controls (a), while rats in the Local IL-10 and MCMs groups were not significantly different from Controls (b, c). MCMs+IL-10 was the only group with significantly higher BBB scores than Controls (d). *P < 0.05 (Dunnett’s Test); error bars represent ± SEM; n = 10