Plasma Cholesterol and hsCRP Levels, PCNA Quantification, and Osteoblast Markers in the Rabbit Treatment Groups.

	Group I Control	Group II High-Cholesterol Diet	Group III High-Cholesterol Diet+Atorvastatin
Total cholesterol, mg/dL	50.7±12.4	3235±328.8*	1943±17.3†
PCNA quantification (% area)	4.4±3.4	82.8±7.3*	21.9±10.1†
hsCRP, mg/dL	0.039±0.004	0.16±0.13*	0.093±0.05
Alkaline phosphatase (RT-PCR) (475 bp)	1.8±3.12	3.6±1.3	0.21±0.37
Osteopontin (RT-PCR) (347 bp)	2.77±0.92	6.40±2.25*	3.43±0.91†
Cbfa-1 (RT-PCR) (289 bp)	1.62±0.36	3.90±1.28*	2.30±0.71†

^*P<0.001 compared with control,

^†P<0.001 compared with high-cholesterol diet.