Table 1.

Body weight of the animal groups

	Presurgery	ITTO Day 1	ITTO Day 3	ITTO Day 5	ITTO Day 7	ITTO Day 10
ITTO	348.4 ± 13.0	316.0 ± 13.7*	325.8 ± 18.0‡	324.5 ± 15.3‡	333.3 ± 17.0†	358.0 ± 11.4
Control	381.4 ± 21.0	355.4 ± 19.6*	359.8 ± 17.5‡	366.6 ± 16.4†	377.4 ± 14.0	384.3 ± 13.0

Body weight (g) for both intrinsic transient tracheal occlusions (ITTO) and control groups on study days 1, 3, 5, 7, and 10 as means ± SE.

^*P < 0.05 compared with presurgical weight;

^†P < 0.05 and

^‡P < 0.01 for body weights compared to ITTO day 10.