Fig. 7

Acute anti-inflammatory treatment alters long-term postural recovery after UVN. A Statokinesigrams illustrating the kinetics of barycenter and paw positions at d3 and d30 for a representative animal in the sham, UVN + placebo and UVN + met groups. For each statokinesigram, the antero-posterior axis is on the abscissa and the lateral axis on the ordinate. The dark blue, red, light blue, and pink dot clouds are the traces of the average positions, respectively, of the right rear paws, left rear paws, right front, and left front paws during a session at each moment when the animal is static on its four legs. The green point cloud is the trace of the successive positions of the barycenter calculated at each of these moments. The various black crosses represent the average position of the legs during an entire session. The red dot represents the average position of the barycentre during a session. B Results representing the changes of the weight distributed on the abdomen, in grams, normalized by subtracting the preoperative value for each rat. C Results representing changes of the mean lateral position of the barycenter, in centimeters, normalized by subtracting the preoperative value for each rat. D Results representing changes of the barycenter inertia, an indicator of the barycenter stability. For each rat, measurements were normalized as a ratio of the preoperative value. E Results representing changes in the barycenter’s lateral maximum deviation, an indicator of barycenter stability along the lateral axis. For each rat, measurements were normalized as a ratio of the preoperative value. Each data point represents the mean for each group with error bars representing SEM. *p < 0.05; **p < 0.01; ***p < 0.001, 2 two-way ANOVA, post hoc Tukey: the sham and UVN + placebo comparison is indicated by a blue*; the sham and UVN + met comparison is indicated by a green*; and the UVN + placebo and UVN + met comparison is indicated by a red*