*4.10. Statistical Analysis*

With the exception of biometrics, all data are reported as mean ± standard deviation of triplicate measurements. Statistical analysis was conducted by the SPSS Statistics Software v. 21.0 (SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA), performing for each investigated variable a two-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) followed by the Tukey' s honestly significant difference (HSD) post-hoc test. Level of significance was set at *p* < 0.05
