Table 1

Sciatic Nerve Conduction Studies in Hexb+/- and Hexb-/- Mice


Hexb+/-
Hexb-/-

CNCV (m/s)a
23.6 ± 0.6 (8)
25.1 ± 0.9 (9)


100 sec-1
400 sec-1
600 sec-1

Percent ΔCNCVa
     Hexb+/-
2% ± 1 (7)
20% ± 4 (L) (7)
18% ± 4 (L) (6)


21% ± 4 (S) (7)
19% ± 3 (S) (6)
     Hexb-/-
5% ± 1 (9)*
20% ± 2 (L) (9)
22% ± 3 (L) (8)


22% ± 2 (S) (9)
22% ± 4 (S) (8)
Wedensky Ratioa
     Hexb+/-
0.99 ± 0.00 (7)
0.67 ± 0.08 (7)
0.46 ± 0.09 (6)
     Hexb-/-
0.99 ± 0.00 (9)
0.84 ± 0.03 (9)*
0.58 ± 0.08 (8)
Amplitude Decrease Ratioa
     Hexb+/-
-
0.54 ± 0.06 (L) (7)
0.41 ± 0.06 (L) (6)


0.37 ± 0.06 (S) (7)
0.17 ± 0.02 (S) (6)
     Hexb-/-
-
0.50 ± 0.03 (L) (9)
0.39 ± 0.03 (L) (8)


0.42 ± 0.03 (S) (9)
0.22 ± 0.04 (S) (8)

CNCV, compound nerve conduction velocity; Percent ΔCNCV, Wedensky Ratio, Amplitude Decrease Ratio, see Materials and Methods; L, S, see Figure 1

a Values represent the mean ± SEM (n)

* p < 0.05 (two-tailed, unpaired t-test), Hexb+/- vs. Hexb-/-

McNally et al. Journal of Negative Results in BioMedicine 2007 6:8   doi:10.1186/1477-5751-6-8

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