Table 3.

Expression levels of inflammation-related proteins in cochlear tissues in different groups

Time	Group	VCAM-1				MIP-1β
		mean ± SEM	P value			mean ± SEM	P value
Day 7	WT	1.000 ± 0.013		0.000*		1.000 ± 0.015		0.001*
	JSH-23	1.125 ± 0.171		0.747**		1.110 ± 0.189		0.816**
	Rad	4.203 ± 0.490		0.000**	0.002***	3.637 ± 0.597		0.000**	0.005***
	Rad + JSH-23	2.471 ± 0.111		0.004**		1.861 ± 0.172		0.098**
Day 14	WT	1.000 ± 0.036		0.000*		1.000 ± 0.004		0.000*
	JSH-23	0.954 ± 0.064		0.786**		1.308 ± 0.210		0.197**
	Rad	2.334 ± 0.180		0.000**	0.033***	4.325 ± 0.069		0.000**	0.000***
	Rad + JSH-23	1.915 ± 0.123		0.000**		3.030 ± 0.411		0.000**

WT: wild-type group; JSH-23: JSH-23-pretreated wild type group; Rad: X-ray radiation group; Rad+JSH-23: JSH-23-pretreated X-ray radiation group.

VCAM-1: vascular cell adhesion molecule 1; MIP-1β: macrophage inflammatory protein 1 beta.

SEM: standard error of mean.

^*results of one-way analysis of variance.

^**all compared with WT groups

^***comparisons between the Rad and JSH-23 groups