approached significancep = 0.051
At day 3 post injury, the differences between groups approached significance (p = 0.051), where pairwise comparisons revealed that naïve animals (3.8 ± 0.61) scored significantly lower than did mTBI animals (5.7 ± 0.61; p = 0.042) and mTBI + pyruvate animals (6.3 ± 0.86; p = 0.026).