Research Article
Effects of Thyroid Hormone Analogue and a Leukotrienes Pathway-Blocker on Reperfusion Injury Attenuation after Heart Transplantation
Table 3
The differences in histopathological scoring of abnormal heart changes among the six experimental groups.
| | Histopathological scoring | Study groups | | Sham | Control |
Control vehicle (1) |
Control vehicle (2) |
MK-886 |
DITPA | | % | | % | | % | | % | | % | | % |
| | Score 0 (no damage) | 6 | 100 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 16.7 | 0 | 0 | | Score 1 (mild) | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 66.7 | 4 | 66.7 | | Score 2 (moderate) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 16.7 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 33.3 | 1 | 16.7 | 2 | 33.3 | | Score 3 (severe) | 0 | 0 | 4 | 66.7 | 5 | 83.33 | 3 | 50 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | | Score 4 (highly severe) | 0 | 0 | 1 | 16.7 | 1 | 16.7 | 1 | 16.7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| | Total | 6 | 100 | 6 | 100 | 6 | 100 | 6 | 100 | 6 | 100 | 6 | 100 |
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