Table 3.

The effects of ML-9 on AII mEPSC frequency under different conditions

	Data	Data structure	Type of test	Power	Mean ± SEM	Number of cells
	Control	Non-normal distribution			1.00 ± 0.00	10
	100 μm ML-9	Normal distribution			7.19 ± 1.32	10
a	Control vs ML-9		Wilcoxon signed-rank test	p = 0.0020
	0 Ca2+ (experimental condition 1)	Normal distribution			0.28 ± 0.07	10
	0 Ca2+ + ML-9	Normal distribution			3.35 ± 0.57	10
b	0 Ca2+ vs 0 Ca2+ + ML-9		paired t test	p = 0.0001
	0 Ca2+ + BAPTA-AM (experimental condition 2)	Normal distribution			0.28 ± 0.07	9
	0 Ca2+ + BAPTA-AM + ML-9	Non-normal distribution			4.04 ± 0.85	9
c	0 Ca2+ + BAPTA-AM vs 0 Ca2+ + BAPTA-AM + ML-9		Wilcoxon signed-rank test	p = 0.0039
	Relative effect of ML-9 under different conditions
	ML-9 effect under control condition	Normal distribution			7.19 ± 1.32	10
	ML-9 effect under experimental condition 1	Non-normal distribution			18.69 ± 4.64	10
	ML-9 effect under experimental condition 2	Non-normal distribution			20.31 ± 5.12	9
d	ML-9 (experimental condition 1) vs ML-9 (control condition)		Mann–Whitney test	p = 0.0232
e	ML-9 (experimental condition 2) vs ML-9 (control condition)		Mann–Whitney test	p = 0.0030

0 Ca²⁺: remove extracellular Ca²⁺.