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Table 4. Semiquantitative scoring of immunohistochemically stained sections of different experimental groups.

REO: Rosemary Essential Oil, BAX: Bcl-2 Associated X-protein, PCNA: Proliferating cell nuclear antigen. Compared to ^acontrol, ^bREO control, ^cdiabetic, ^ddiabetic insulin-treated,^ediabetic REO-treated, ^fdiabetic insulin & REO-treated, *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01

Animal groups	Average score of BAX Mean ± SD	Average score of PCNA Mean ± SD
Negative control	3.1 ± 0.74	1.9 ± 0.32
REO positive control	3.5 ± 1.71	1.8 ± 0.63
Diabetic	7.5 ± .072^{*(a,b,d,f) (e)}	3.9 ± .074^{*(a,b, f) ,(d)}
Diabetic insulin-treated	5.2 ± 0.63 ^*(a,b,c⁽^{, (f)}	4.8 ± 0.63 ^*(a,b,f⁽^{, (c)}
Diabetic REO-treated	6.1 ± 0.99^{*(a,b, f), (c)}	4.6 ± 0.84^{**(a,b, f)}
Diabetic insulin & REO treated	3.67 ± 0.71 ^{*(c, f), (d)}	6.8 ± 0.63 ^{**(a,b,c, d,f)}