highly significantp < 0.001
The anti‐viral cytokine IFN‐β exhibited a strong and highly significant early expression at 2 dpi (13.75 ± 0.42; p < 0.001), followed by a gradual but significant decline at 5 dpi (9.73 ± 0.37; p < 0.001) and 10 dpi (8.02 ± 0.15; p < 0.001) (Figure 4c ; Table S2 ).