Locomotor recovery assessed by Basso, Beattie, and Bresnahan (BBB) test.

<p>Hind limbs locomotor function was scored as from 0 to 21 (flaccid paralysis to normal gait). Rats with transplantation of F3.VEGF showed significantly improved locomotor behavior up to 6 weeks after SCI. *** <i>p</i><0.001 compared to PBS group, ^#<i>p</i><0.05, ^###<i>p</i><0.001 compared to F3 group, by one-way ANOVA followed by Tukey's <i>posthoc</i> analysis. N = 8 for each group.