Table 2.

Comparison between the different studied groups according to MMP-1 and TIMP-1.

		CG1	CG2	CG3	CG4	LFG	MSCs + CCl4G	MSCsG	p
MMP-1	Mean ± SD	1.01 ± 0.01	1.05 ± 0.08	1.02 ± 0.04	1.02 ± 0.02	0.41 ± 0.09abcd	0.71 ± 0.10abcde	1.06 ± 0.08ef	<0.001∗
TIMP-1		0.97 ± 0.05	0.98 ± 0.11	0.99 ± 0.10	0.93 ± 0.09	3.90 ± 0.60abcd	2.24 ± 0.57abcde	0.91 ± 0.09ef

p values for ANOVA test: significance between groups was done using post hoc test (Tukey). ^aSignificant compared with CG1. ^bSignificant compared with CG2. ^cSignificant compared with CG3. ^dSignificant compared with CG4. ^eSignificant compared with LFG. ^fSignificant compared with MSCs + CCl4G, statistically significant at  p ≤ 0.05.