Table 3

Concentrations of immunoreactive PEDF in plasmas

nMeanSEMMedian25th Percentile75th Percentilep Value*
Control303.90.33.93.14.7
DM before117.20.37.36.87.6
After 1 day115.80.45.75.36.4<0.001
After 1 week115.80.55.65.06.6<0.001
After 1 month116.30.65.84.48.2>0.05
  • Concentrations of PEDF are in micrograms of immunoreactive PEDF per millilitre of sample.

  • * Two-sided exact repeated-measures analysis of variance by ranks with Tukey's multiple comparison test. A p value was comparison of after versus before an injection in the group of diabetes mellitus.