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Table 4 Effect of GA and LG on expression of TNF-α, IL-10, and VEGF genes and ET-1

From: Ameliorating effect of gum arabic and lemongrass on chronic kidney disease induced experimentally in rats

	TNF-α	IL-10	VEGF	ET-1 (pg/mg)
Group I	1.00 ± 0.06^d	1.00 ± 0.05^a	1.00 ± 0.04^a	4.35 ± 0.32^d
Group II	5.21 ± 0.30^a	0.21 ± 0.02^d	0.20 ± 0.02^d	37.59 ± 1.40^a
Group III	2.81 ± 0.20^b	0.41 ± 0.03^c	0.43 ± 0.04^c	19.45 ± 0.95^b
Group IV	1.78 ± 0.14^c	0.48 ± 0.03^b	0.71 ± 0.05^b	8.23 ± 0.71^c

Group (I): control group. Group (II): adenine group. Group (III): adenine + GA group. Group (IV): adenine + LG group
Values represent mean ± S.E. with the number of animals (10) in each group. Mean values with different superscript letters in the same column are significantly different at P ≤ 0.05

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