Fig. 9

Changes of apoptosis-related proteins between young and adult rats after 3 days of IR by 3MA treatment. Western blot analysis of NeuN expression (A, B); LC3-II expression (A, C); Cleaved caspase-8 expression (A, D); Cleaved caspase-3 expression (A, E); Bcl-xL expression (A, F). (n = 7 per group; ^*p < 0.05, significantly different from the respectively young ischemia-group; ^#p < 0.05, significantly different from the corresponding young or adult ischemia-group; full-length blots are presented in Additional file 1: Fig. S3). The bars indicate the means ± SEM