Pharmacologic Effect of Miao Medicine Illicium simonsii Maxim. on Collagen-Induced Arthritis in Rats

Table 3

Rat foot joint pathological scores.

Group	Blood vessel fibrosis	Endothelial proliferation	Rheumatoid-like cells
Normal	0	0	0
Model	1.66 ± 0.09	2.45 ± 0.05	1.14 ± 0.03
TG	0.49 ± 0.07^∗∗	0.80 ± 0.04^∗∗	0.22 ± 0.03^∗∗
ISM-H	1.18 ± 0.02^∗∗##	2.13 ± 0.05^∗∗##@	0.70 ± 0.07^∗∗##@@
ISM-L	1.38 ± 0.17^∗∗##	2.22 ± 0.02^∗∗##	0.90 ± 0.04^∗∗##@
ISM-T	1.41 ± 0.09^∗∗##	2.34 ± 0.01^∗∗##	1.10 ± 0.07^∗##

Note: ^∗p < 0.05, ^∗∗p < 0.01, vs model group; ^##p < 0.01, vs TG group; ^@p < 0.05, ^@@p < 0.01, vs ISM-T group.