Pegylated Interferon- Modulates Liver Concentrations of Activin-A and Its Related Proteins in Normal Wistar Rat

Table 4

Mean ± SD of serum and liver concentrations of activin-A and follistatin in the different groups.

	Activin-A (pg/mL)		Follistatin (pg/mL)
	Serum	Liver	Serum	Liver
Control	166.5 ± 41.7	216.1 ± 45.7	128.9 ± 40.9	72.6 ± 22.1
Peg-only	92.08 ± 15.3^a	115.2 ± 37.5^a	354.15 ± 91.1^a	157.4 ± 28.5^a
Peg & RBV	56.5 ± 10.9^a,b	112.4 ± 41.6^a	212.4 ± 40.4^a,b	134.4 ± 38.6^a
RBV-only	174.7 ± 35.8^b,c	281.8 ± 84.2^b,c	98.9 ± 33.4^b,c	82.2 ± 23.5^b,c

compared to control, ^b compared to Peg-only, and ^c compared to Peg & RBV group.