Table 1.

Degree of clinical intra-abdominal adhesions in 32 rats receiving simvastatin (n=16) or normal saline (n=16).

The degree of clinical adhesion	Simvastatin (n=16)	Normal Saline (n=16)	p -value
0: No adhesion	10 (62.5%)	0 (0.0%)	<0.001
1: One adhesion band, no vessel, easily separated	6 (37.5%)	11 (68.8%)
2: Two thin adhesion bands, no vessel, easily separated	0 (0.0%)	3 (18.7%)
3: Three thin adhesion bands, no vessel, easily separated	0 (0.0%)	2 (12.5%)
4: More than three thin adhesion bands, easily separated with no vessel or diffuse adhesion bands with vessels	0 (0.0%)	0 (0.0%)