Effects of Chinese traditional compound, JinSanE, on expression of TGF-β1 and TGF-β1 type II receptor mRNA, Smad3 and Smad7 on experimental hepatic fibrosis in vivo

Table 1 Comparison of semiquantitative RT-PCR results in the four experimental groups (mean±SD).

Groups	n	Expression levels
		TGFβ1 mRNA	TRII mRNA
Normal	18	0.401±0.059	0.275±0.027
Model	15	1.410±0.094b	1.215±0.079b
JinSanE I	17	0.590±0.053d	0.461±0.029d
JinSanE II	16	0.693±0.057bd	0.651±0.035bdf

^bP<0.01 vs compared with the normal group;

^dP<0.01 vs compared with the model group; and

^fP<0.01 vs compared with JinSanE group I.