Table 5. Liver miRNA amplification cycle numbers.

	Before treatment	After treatment	No-template control	t-test p value
miR156a	34.18 ± 0.73 a	36.07 ± 1.35 b	35.19 ± 0.34 * ab	0.02
miR164a	34.06 ± 0.41 a	35.06 ± 0.67 a	35.19 ± 0.76 * a	0.03
miR167a	32.47 ± 1.15 a	34.24 ± 1.02 b	34.76 ± 0.67 * b	0.02

Cycle numbers were averages of liver samples (n = 5) or no-template controls (n = 3). Asterisks represent significant differences between before treatment and no-template control in a t-test. Numbers with different letters are significantly different in a Tukey’s test (p ≤ 0.05) among the three groups.