Table 3.

Level of Mucin 5B in serum and stimulated and unstimulated saliva of OLP patients and controls.

	Control	Case	P-value
Mucin 5B in serum (ng/ml)	417.1 ± 49.2	614.8 ± 63.0	0.016*
Mucin 5B in stimulated saliva (ng/ml)	203.1 ± 37.3	200.4 ± 11.5	0.944
Mucin 5B in unstimulated saliva (ng/ml)	466.1 ± 28.1	190.8 ± 26.0	0.0001*
Released Mucin 5B in unstimulated saliva (ng/min)	334.7 ± 42.6	79.6 ± 10.6	0.0001*
Released Mucin 5B in stimulated saliva (ng/min)	274.2 ± 72.5	122.1 ± 14.3	0.044*
Unstimulated saliva flow (ml/min)	0.72 ± 0.08	0.45 ± 0.06	0.008*
Stimulated saliva flow (ml/min)	1.27 ± 0.26	0.68 ± 0.07	0.035*

Data were reported as mean ± standard deviation.

*Indicates significant differences. P < 0.05 was considered statistically significant.