Fig. 1

Relative expression of Neat1 gene in the spinal cord neural progenitor cells (SC-NPCs) and spinal cord injury (SCI) animals. Moreover, the relative expression of miR-124 and RXRα were also detected by quantitative real-time PCR (q-PCR). GAPDH expression served as a loading control. a The expression of Neat1 in SC-NPCs during differentiation when miR-124 was overexpressed or knocked down. b The relative expression of Neat1, miR-124, and RXRα at the injury site after SCI. Expression levels of each gene were normalized to GAPDH. The data are shown as the mean ± SD. *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001