MBP and ischemia: In the ischemia-hypothermia intact and localized diffuse MBP loss areas, astrocyte number was significantly higher than in the lesion (p = 0.002, p = 0.001) and extensive diffuse areas (p = 0.036, p = 0.015) in the ischemia-normothermia group, but was not significantly different to the intact areas of the sham control (p = 0.317, p = 0.122) or ischemia-normothermia group (p = 0.306, p = 0.776).