Statistics
All statistical analyses were performed using the software
package SPSS. Data were checked for normality (ShapiroeWilk’s
test) and homogeneous variance (Levene’s test) and were log10
transformed for parametric one-way ANOVA and ANCOVA followed
by SNK test for multiple comparisons. Correlations were made
using Pearson’s correlation coefficient. Differences at the 5% significance
level were considered significant as described formerly
for hepatic markers (Koenig and Solé, 2012).