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Table 4.

Biochemical results in 7 and 21 days old pups lung tissues.

		Control		TS		TS + ALA		ALA
Age (days)		7	21	7	21	7	21	7	21
Apoptotic index (%)		2,92 ± 1.82	3,01 ± 1.78	35,50 ± 6.11^a	30,07 ± 6.84^a	14,05 ± 1.54^ab	12,54 ± 2.43^ab	4,05 ± 0.89^b	4,25 ± 1.48^b
Caspase-3 immunreactivity		0,35 ± 0.15	0,2 ± 0.13	2,30 ± 0.48^a	2,1 ± 0.6^a	1,04 ± 0.39 ^ab	0,81 ± 0.2 ^ab	0,52 ± 0.23^b	0,4 ± 0.15 ^b
SP-A	immunreactivity	1,43 ± 0.17	2,00 ± 0.24	0,22 ± 0.08^a	0,43 ± 0.08^a	1,03 ± 0.18 ^b	1,30 ± 0.10^ab	1,13 ± 0.16^b	1,85 ± 0.19^b
SP-A	mRNA level (fold change)	1	1	0,114 ± 0.09^a	0,594 ± 0.03^a	2,495 ± 0.02^ab	2,603 ± 0.23^ab	3,173 ± 0.01^ab	3,427 ± 0.14^ab
VEGF	immunreactivity	1,23 ± 0.13	2,00 ± 0.24	0,43 ± 0.05^a	0,51 ± 0.11^a	0,91 ± 0.21 ^b	1,45 ± 0.16 ^b	1,16 ± 0.14^b	1,75 ± 0.32^b
VEGF	mRNA level (fold change)	1	1	0,131 ± 0.03^a	0,327 ± 0.12^a	2,173 ± 0.11^ab	2,561 ± 0.01^ab	5,189 ± 0.32^ab	5,971 ± 0.26^ab