Table 3

Morphometric analysis


Control
Probucol
LXS
HXS

MIT (mm)
0.89 ± 0.40
0.54 ± 0.15
0.48 ± 0.08
0.34 ± 0.05*
LA (mm2)
0.90 ± 1.18
1.35 ± 0.83
1.88 ± 0.91
2.01 ± 0.88 ▲
IELa (mm2)
2.20 ± 0.65
2.16 ± 0.64
2.62 ± 1.03
2.52 ± 0.76
EELa (mm2)
3.22 ± 0.63
3.34 ± 0.62
3.68 ± 1.18
3.40 ± 0.64
MA (mm2)
1.02 ± 0.11
1.18 ± 0.43
1.06 ± 0.47
0.88 ± 0.30
IA (mm2)
1.30 ± 0.68
0.81 ± 0.68
0.74 ± 0.14
0.51 ± 0.27
RL (%)
34.00 ± 37.00
62.00 ± 24.00 ▲
70.00 ± 7.00 ▲▲
77.00 ± 14.00
PI
0.43 ± 0.23
0.24 ± 0.18 ▲
0.21 ± 0.04 ▲▲
0.16 ± 0.09 ▲▲

Values are mean ± SD. *P < 0.05, significance vs. control: comparison of group means after ANOVA; ▲ P < 0.05, ▲▲ P < 0.01, significance vs. control: comparison of group means after ANOVA taking injury score as covariance.

Xu et al. Chinese Medicine 2006 1:2   doi:10.1186/1749-8546-1-2