Protective Effect of Hesperetin and Naringenin against Apoptosis in Ischemia/Reperfusion-Induced Retinal Injury in Rats

Table 3

Number of caspase-3 positive cells in the retina.

	Control	Sham	Solvent group	Hesperetin group	Naringenin group
INL	13.44 ± 4.2	520.32 ± 65.7^a	491 ± 74.9^a	385.92 ± 72.6^b	338.56 ± 32.8^b
ONL	2.56 ± 0.4	68.48 ± 12.7^a	46.2 ± 14.2^c	38.4 ± 8.1^b	39.56 ± 9.5^b

INL: inner nuclear layer; ONL: outer nuclear layer.
^aP < 0.0001: comparison to control; ^bP < 0.001: comparison to control, sham, and solvent groups; ^cP < 0.001: comparison to control and sham.