Effects of a Preconditioning Oral Nutritional Supplement on Pig Livers after Warm Ischemia

Table 3

Quantitative assessment of immunohistochemical findings.

Expression	Control (n = 6)				pONS (n = 6)				P
	n	median	25%	75%	n	median	25%	75%
TNF-𝛼	84	2	2	3	102	1	1	1	<0.001
MPO	79	4	3	4	99	2	2	3	<0.001
Caspase-3	81	4	3	4	100	2	1	2	<0.001

Conditions as described in Materials and Methods; n = 6 in each group; median values of indices for immunohistochemical expression of TNF-𝛼, MPO, and cleaved caspase-3 with interquartile range 8 hrs after warm ischemia/reperfusion have been compared with Mann-Whitney rank sum. TNF-𝛼: tumor necrosis factor-alpha; MPO: myeloperoxidase; pONS: preconditioning oral nutritional supplement.