2.9 Statistical analysis
SPSS 19 (SPSS Science Inc., Chicago, Illinois) and Prism 6.0 (Graph Pad
Software, La Jolla, CA, USA) were used to perform data analysis.
Quantitative data expressed as the mean ± S.E.M. Two-tailed Student’st -test was used for comparisons between the control and treated
groups, and studies involving more than two groups, data were evaluated
with one-way Analysis of Variance (ANOVA) followed by the Tukey’s post
hoc test. Statistical significance was defined asP< 0.05.