Table 5.

Gene expression of important downstream integrin genes in the focal adhesion pathway (red ⋆)

Gene symbol	Chitosan film	Collagen/chitosan film
Actn1	0.035 ± 0.006↓	0.159 ± 0.001↓**
Vcl	0.091 ± 0.000↓	2.437 ± 0.010↑**
Flna	0.001 ± 0.000↓	0.072 ± 0.012↓**
Ilk	0.144 ± 0.020↓

^** P < 0.01, fold change of one gene between chitosan and collagen/chitosan groups was considered to have a very significant difference.