Effects of Cervical Rotatory Manipulation (CRM) on Carotid Atherosclerosis Plaque in Vulnerability: A Histological and Immunohistochemical Study Using Animal Model

Table 2

ANOVA on fitted model for the effect of CAS modeling, CRM, and their interaction on the serum level of hs-CRP and LP-PLA2.

	hs-CRP					Lp-PLA2
	SS	df	MS	F	P	SS	df	MS	F	P
CAS modeling effect	62.685	1	62.685	104.845	<0.001	651.266	1	651.266	37.782	<0.001
CRM effect	4.220	1	4.220	7.058	0.012	4.114	1	4.114	0.239	0.628
CAS modeling × CRM interaction	1.061	1	1.061	1.775	0.192	4.473	1	4.473	0.259	0.614
Error	20.328	34	0.598			586.075	34	17.237
Total	85.773	37				1237.963	37

CAS, carotid atherosclerosis; CRM, cervical rotatory manipulation; SS, sum of squares; df, degrees of freedom; MS, mean square.