extremely significantp -values < 0.001
highly significantp -values < 0.01
Differences were considered non-significant (ns) for p -values > 0.05 (marked as “ns”), significant for p -values < 0.05 (marked as *), highly significant for p -values < 0.01 (marked as **), and extremely significant for p -values < 0.001 (marked as ***), and p -values < 0.0001 (marked as ****), respectively. 3.