Table 2.
Effect of different doses of diacerein on inflammatory changes induced by BDL in different experimental groups.
| Group | Sham-operated group | BDL group | BDL + diacerein (10 mg/kg) | BDL + diacerein (30 mg/kg) | BDL + diacerein (50 mg/kg) | Chi square (X2) | p value | p value | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | N | % | ||||
| Grade of inflammation | |||||||||||||
| Grade (0) | 8 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 12.5 | 2 | 25 | 2 | 25 | 22.336 | 0.000** | 0.000** |
| Grade (1) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 50 | 4 | 50 | 5 | 62.5 | 13.219 | 0.010* | |
| Grade (2) | 0 | 0 | 2 | 25 | 3 | 37.5 | 2 | 25 | 1 | 12.5 | 4.063 | 0.398 | |
| Grade (3) | 0 | 0 | 6 | 75 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 28.235 | 0.000** | |
| Grade (4) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
*Statistically significant difference (p ≤ 0.01), **Statistically highly significant difference (p ≤ 0.001), n: number (number of sacrificed rats in each group = 8 rats), %: Percent. There are statistically significant differences between all groups regarding all grades of inflammatory changes except grade 2.