Table 3.

Effect of ATR and LC on gene expression of apoptotic pathway genes

Parameter	Control N = 10	ATR treated N = 10 Mean ± sd	Protected N = 10 Mean ± sd	P value
Bax	1.0	4.31 ± 0.53ª	1.87 ± 0.29a,b	< 0.001*
Bcl-2	1.0	0.228 ± 0.03	0.858 ± 0.07b	< 0.001*
Caspase-3	1.0	6.14 ± 1.07ª	2.88 ± 0.47a,b	< 0.001*
Bax/Bcl-2 Ratio	1.0	19.5 ± 4.5	2.2 ± 0.47	< 0.001*

One-way ANOVA

Sd standard deviation

NS non-significant

^*Significant(P < 0.001)

^aVersus control

^bVersus treated

N number