Table 4.

NTyr in plasma protein of blood and peritoneal exudate fluid of zymosan-treated F344 rats

	n	AcATyr per 106 AcTyr
		Plasma	Exudate
PBS	6	0.37 ± 0.32	ND
Zymosan	5	12.46 ± 3.13*	14.11 ± 2.33*
Zymosan + NMMA	3	3.82 ± 2.88†	6.69 ± 1.48‡

Values are given as mean ± SD. ND, not determined. 

^*P < 0.001 vs. PBS-plasma;  

^†P < 0.001 vs. zymosan;  

^‡P < 0.01 vs. zymosan-exudate; P values calculated by one-way ANOVA, Bonferonni multiple comparison test.