an increasing trendp < 0.005
As anticipated, there was an increasing trend of total Car amount (p < 0.005) in model, contributing to elevating the total level from 748.8 ± 48.19 nmol/mL serum in control to 1205 ± 74.28 nmol/mL serum in model, with an ~61 mol% increase in serum ( Figure 5A ).