Antioxidant Effects of Curcumin Gel in Experimental Induced Diabetes and Periodontitis in Rats

Table 6

The comparison between glucose levels in control and different groups using Dunnett t test and comparison between untreated EDP and three treated groups using Tukey HSD test, with one-way ANOVA† (F-test) to compare among different groups.

Variable	Groups	0 day		7 days		14 days		21 days
		GLU (pg/dl)	C		≤0.001		≤0.001		≤0.001		≤0.001
EDP
C			≤0.001		≤0.001		≤0.001		≤0.001
SCU
C			≤0.001		≤0.001		≤0.001		≤0.001
CU
C			≤0.001		≤0.001		≤0.001		≤0.001
SRP
value		≤0.001†		≤0.001†		≤0.001†		≤0.001†
GLU (pg/dl)	EDP		0.98		≤0.001		0.001		≤0.001
	SCU
	EDP		0.96		≤0.001		0.002		≤0.001
	CU
	EDP		0.99		≤0.001		≤0.001		≤0.001
	SRP
	SCU		1		0.709		0.93		1
	CU
	SCU		1		0.028		0.50		0.17
	SRP
	CU		0.999		0.20		0.22		0.15
	SRP
value		0.970†		≤0.001†		≤0.001†		≤0.001†

GLU: glucose; C: control; EPD: untreated experimental diabetes and periodontitis; SCU: scaling and curcumin; CU: curcumin; SRP: scaling and root planing; †one-way ANOVA; : probability <0.05 is significant; is nonsignificant.