Systemic Administration of Neutral Electrolyzed Saline as a Novel Treatment for Rheumatoid Arthritis Reduces Mechanical and Inflammatory Damage to the Joints: Preclinical Evaluation in Mice
Table 5
Spearman’s correlation coefficients between the histopathological scores of all groups.
Histopathological Scores
Cd
Be
Etf
Pf
Ec
I
Sg
Cartilage damage (Cd)
1.000
Bone erosion (Be)
0.782
1.000
Excess tissue formation (Etf)
0.890
0.678
1.000
Pannus formation (Pf)
0.826
0.848
0.850
1.000
Ectopic chondrocytes (Ec)
0.747
0.742
0.700
0.859
1.000
Inflammation (I)
0.814
0.785
0.764
0.824
0.703
1.000
Synovitis grading (Sg)
0.896
0.810
0.925
0.958
0.812
0.905
1.000
Correlation is significant at the 0.01 level (2-tailed).