Research Article

Bone Response to Titanium Implants Coated with Double- or Single-Stranded DNA

Table 2

Total length of calcein labels in ROI (mm/mm2).

Implants3 Weeks6 Weeks

Ti0.42 0.25
DNA-d/protamine1.25 0.60
DNA-s/protamine1.71 0.56

Values in parenthesis indicate SD.
Different small letters indicate significant differences among Ti, DNA-d/protamine, and DNA-s/protamine implants at 3 weeks or at 6 weeks (p < 0.05).
Different large letters indicate significant differences between 3 weeks and 6 weeks in the same implant material (p < 0.05).