Recent advances on the association of apoptosis in chronic non healing diabetic wound

Table 1 Mean blood glucose level, apoptotic index and DNA fragmentation in control rats (P value < 0.01)

	5th day	10th day	20th day	30th day
Control (n =10) blood glucose (mg/dL)	75.62 ± 6.41	80.79 ± 11.45	92.05 ± 9.56	90.77 ± 9.7
Apoptotic index (mean ± SD)	1.50 ± 0.60	1.60 ± 0.99	1.64 ± 0.86	1.69 ± 1.12
DNA fragmentation (%) (mean ± SD)	42.25 ± 3.95	44.15 ± 5.61	45.45 ± 5.88	46.58 ± 5.95

Table 2 Mean blood glucose level, apoptotic index, and DNA fragmentation in rats with diabetes (P value < 0.01)

	5th day	10th day	20th day	30th day
With diabetes (n = 10) blood glucose (mg/dL)	467.25 ± 48.2	506.33 ± 35.89	474.99 ± 39.76	488.15 ± 34.36
Apoptotic index (mean ± SD)	3.50 ± 2.60	4.20 ± 2.99	3.60 ± 3.56	3.69 ± 2.75
DNA fragmentation (mean ± SD)	62.80 ± 9.56	74.95 ± 10.45	66.55 ± 8.67	70.48 ± 6.21