The Effect of Combined Oral Contraceptive Pills on Beclin-1 and LC3B Transcript Levels in Ovarian Endometrioma

Table 3

Beclin-1 and LC3 transcript levels in endometria.

	No treatment ()	COC ()	Control ()	^a value	^b value
					No treatment vs. COC	COC vs. control	No treatment vs. control
mRNA expression of Beclin-				0.023	0.011	0.029	0.677
mRNA expression of				0.708	—	—	—

^a: value was calculated by ANOVA. ^b: value was calculated by LSD post hoc multiple comparisons test. mRNA: messenger ribonucleic acid; COC: combined oral contraceptive.