Effects of β-Carotene and Its Cleavage Products in Primary Pneumocyte Type II Cells.

Antioxidants (Basel) · 2017 · PMC5488017 · PMID 28531132

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0.0100

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highly significantp < 0.01actually significant

At the same concentration, a highly significant ( p < 0.01) decrease of the proliferation rate as evidenced by the mitotic index (0.62 ± 0.37) was observed.

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almost significantp = 0.073so close (0.05 < p ≤ 0.1)

The results of the Comet assay, however, contradicted this assumption, since increasing β-carotene concentrations reduced DNA damage, and this reduction became almost significant ( p = 0.073) at a β-carotene concentration of 10 μM, most likely indicating an antioxidant action of β-carotene. 4.

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