Table 1. Fibrosis markers.

Table shows fibrosis markers. Data points are mean fold change after normalization to average control. Data is shown as mean and standard deviation (SD). Significant p-values (p<0.05) are highlighted in bold.

	SIT (Mean ± SD)	p
Jak2	0.60 ± 0.10	0.006
pSTAT	0.37 ± 0.15	0.43
STAT	1.33 ± 0.23	0.046
pSTAT Ratio	3.62 ± 1.22	0.004
Connexin	0.91 ± 0.06	0.45
Alpha-Actinin	0.81 ± 0.13	0.02
Vimentin	0.96 ± 0.24	0.83
Filamin A	0.96 ± 0.12	0.17
TGF-Beta	2.54 ± 0.65	0.03
TGF-BR	0.74 ±0.26	0.27
pSMAD 2/3	0.51 ± 0.12	0.04
SMAD 2/3	0.73 ± 0.08	0.01
pSMAD Ratio	0.67 ± 0.13	0.15
pmTOR	0.75 ± 0.14	0.43
mTOR	1.01 ± 0.21	0.98
pMTOR Ratio	0.70 ± 0.06	0.01
TIMP 2	0.89 ± 0.32	0.45
MMP-13	1.93 ± 0.26	0.001