Table 2.
Differences in the mean IL-1β optical density in the alveolar bone between the different groups.
| IL-1β for Alveolar bone | |||||||||
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| Groups | Mean | SD | CI | F test | p-Value | ||||
| Control (G1) | 41.2c | 2.9 | 35.52, 46.88 | 1651.94 | 0.0001∗ | ||||
| Infected (G2) | 146.3a | 3.9 | 138.66, 153.94 | ||||||
| Tetracycline (G3) | 147.9a | 3.5 | 141.04, 154.76 | ||||||
| Chitosan (G4) | 146.6a | 2.7 | 141.31, 151.89 | ||||||
| Tetracycline loaded on chitosan (G5) | 60.5b | 2.9 | 54.82, 66.18 | ||||||
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| Pairwise comparison using Bonferroni post hoc | |||||||||
| Compared groups | p-Value | p-Value | p-Value | p-Value | |||||
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| G1 vs. G2 | 0.0001∗ | G2 vs. G3 | 0.947 | G3 vs. G4 | 0.851 | G4 vs. G5 | 0.0001∗ | ||
| G1 vs. G3 | 0.0001∗ | G2 vs. G4 | 0.861 | G3 vs. G5 | 0.0001∗ | — | — | ||
| G1 vs. G4 | 0.0001∗ | G2 vs. G5 | 0.0001∗ | — | — | — | — | ||
| G1 vs. G5 | 0.0001∗ | — | — | — | — | — | — | ||
∗ and different superscript letters indicate significant difference between groups at p < 0.05.