Table 3. Pairwise Comparisons of Intra-Individual Gaping and Intact Samples.

	intact samples (n = 10) (μg/mg dried tissue)		Gaping samples (n = 10) (μg/mg dried tissue)
chondroitin sulfate	average	SD	average	SD	statistics (paired t-test)
total dp2	1.0161	0.362	0.8866	0.1656	p = 0.212
10101	0.3438	0.1058	0.3845	0.0928	p = 0.285
10111	0.5537	0.1994	0.4336	0.0893	p = 0.027a
10121	0.0244	0.0646	0.0692	0.0982	p = 0.098
dp1	0.0296	0.0118	0.0342	0.0104	p = 0.265
dp3 [0,1,2,3,2]	0.0012	0.0011	0.001	0.0012	p = 0.803
dp3 [1,1,1,1,1]	1.4584	0.1257	1.537	0.2821	p = 0.507
dp4	0.0407	0.0264	0.045	0.0353	p = 0.636
dp5	0.0009	0.0011	0.0023	0.0017	p = 0.284
dp6	0.00033	0.00052	0.00024	0.0002	p = 0.663
dp8	0.00057	0.00119	0.00091	0.00109	p = 0.578
chain length	109.6	28.75	94.64	19.91	p = 0.172

dp2 distribution (%)
[1,0,1,0,1]	35.2	7.03	43.33	6.17	p = 0.002b
[1,0,1,1,1]	55.49	5.72	49.04	5.05	p = 0.006b
[1,0,1,2,1]	9.3	2.52	7.63	1.5	p = 0.03a

^aSignificant at p < 0.05.

^bSignificant at p < 0.01.