. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Feb 1.

Published in final edited form as: Dent Mater. 2013 Dec 13;30(2):227–233. doi: 10.1016/j.dental.2013.11.007

Table 6.

Hydroxyproline (ng HYP/mg dentin) detected after 7-day artificial saliva storage of total demineralized dentin specimens treated with cross-linkers for 30 or 60 s.

Application time	Dentin treatment

	Water	0.5 M EDC	1 M EDC	2 M EDC	10% GA
30 s	2571.33 (2073.11–3053.54)^a,A	445.49 (292.71–479.19)^b,A	437.47 (343.62–479.19)^b,A	386.43 (347.19–450.56)^b,A	371.21 (248.98–461.69)^b,A
60 s	3271.29 (2390.33–3693.05)^a,B	405.41 (351.11–442.39)^b,A	383.65 (296.40–457.50)^b,A	388.79 (244.09–462.87)^b,A	299.75 (280.01–386.13)^b,A

Abbreviations = EDC: carbodiimida; GA: glutaraldehyde.

Numbers are median (percentile 25–percentile 75), n = 10. Lowercase letters allow comparisons within application time (rows) while uppercase letters allow comparison within treatment (columns).

Medians indicated by the same letter do not differ statistically (Mann–Whitney, p > 0.05).