Evidence-Based Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Research Article

Pistacia atlantica Resin Has a Dose-Dependent Effect on Angiogenesis and Skin Burn Wound Healing in Rat

Table 5

Evaluation and analysis of bFGF, PDGF and NO concentrations in the wounds fluid in 5th day of the study.


Groups	bFGF^∧	P value^†	PDGF^∧	P value^†	NO^∧∧
Groups	mean ± SD ()	P value^†	mean ± SD ()	P value^†	mean ± SD ()

Control group	50.60 ± 0.43 (7)		18.64 ± 1.70 (6)		3.20 ± 0.97 (8)
Group treated by 5% EC	52.60 ± 1.71 (8)	0.043*	24.58 ± 7.05 (8)	0.255	2.92 ± 0.95 (7)
Group treated by 10% EC	52.90 ± 1.79 (8)	0.017*	28.89 ± 4.78 (7)	0.019*	5.18 ± 0.61 (8)
Group treated by 20% EC	51.17 ± 1.00 (8)	0.589	24.70 ± 6.96 (8)	0.240	3.68 ± 0.69 (8)
^††P value	0.007**		0.034**		0.232

EC: extract concentration. Data is given as mean ± SD, ^†comparison of G1 with other groups, ^∧concentration (pg/mL), ^∧∧concentration (µmol/mL), *significantly different from the control group, **statistically significant difference, ^††by comparison of all groups (ANOVA test). : number of animals.