Table 1: Characteristics of experimental animals.

Variable Groups - p-value
Group A
(antibiotic)
(n=10)		 Group B
(placebo)
(n=10)		 Group C
(control)
(n=10)		 -
Strain BALB/c BALB/c BALB/c -
Sex male male male -
Age (weeks) 10.00±1.49 9.60±1.43 9.90±1.28 0.804
Body weight (grams) 34.54±3.45 35.72±2.23 34.36±3.65 0.614
VDR level (ng/mL) at baseline 2.98±1.09 3.82±1.81 2.94±1.07 0.275
IL-6 level (pg/mL) at baseline 109.25±29.21 125.71±40.12 103.55±22.98 0.282
TNF-α level (pg/mL) at baseline 96.62±21.90 98.96±25.95 95.50±20.01 0.909

Values are expressed in mean±SD, p-value of <0.05 is considered significant for the comparison between groups with One-Way ANOVA test.