TABLE 2.
Body weight (g) |
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Selenium (mg/kg diet) | Treatment | Mice per group | Beginning of exposure | End of study |
0.15 | Control | 8 | 18.85 ± 1.53a,b | 19.29 ± 1.67 |
Smoke | 7 | 18.79 ± 1.01a,b | 16.54 ± 1.48* | |
0.5 | Control | 8 | 19.54 ± 1.07b | 20.00 ± 1.14 |
Smoke | 8 | 19.95 ± 1.03b | 17.14 ± 1.04* | |
2.0 | Control | 8 | 18.90 ± 1.37a | 19.50 ± 1.33 |
Smoke | 8 | 17.98 ± 1.14a | 16.24 ± 0.82* | |
Results of two-way ANOVA (p values) | ||||
Main effect for selenium | 0.01 | 0.24 | ||
Main effect for smoking | 0.59 | < 0.001 | ||
Selenium × Smoking interaction | 0.29 | 0.84 |
Note. Results are means ± SEM. Significant differences in smoke-exposed mice for the same selenium level are indicated with an asterisk (*); for differences due to dietary selenium, values with different superscript letters are significantly different (p < 0.05).