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Table 2 Integrated optical densities of the immunohistochemical staining for IL-1β and TNF-α

From: Preventive effects of the novel antimicrobial peptide Nal-P-113 in a rat Periodontitis model by limiting the growth of Porphyromonas gingivalis and modulating IL-1β and TNF-α production

	Controls	P. gingivalis	Nal-P-113 (n = 12)
	(n = 12)	(n = 12)	6.25 μg/mL	25 μg/mL	100 μg/mL	400 μg/mL
IL-1β	5.32 ± 0.93	54.26 ± 2.94	49.32 ± 9.81	40.50 ± 5.61	19.78 ± 3.40^a	12.40 ± 2.51^a
TNF-α	4.63 ± 0.57	27.11 ± 1.60	24.63 ± 5.17	20.94 ± 3.77	12.62 ± 2.67^a	9.09 ± 2.07^a

^a P < 0.05, compared with the P. gingivalis group

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