title: Global test statistics for treatment effect of stroke and traumatic brain injury in rats with administration of bone marrow stromal cells.
abstract: Because no single test measures disability in rats with middle cerebral artery occlusion/traumatic brain injury (MCAo/TBI), multiple tests are needed to assess the effect of bone marrow stromal cell (MSC) on functional recovery. Testing the treatment effect on each outcome at the 0.05 level without adjusting for multiple outcomes can increase type I error. Therefore, we applied the global test to evaluate a common MSC dose effect on multiple outcomes in two applications: (i) MCAo rats with the MSC dose of zero (BPS), 1x10(6) and 3x10(6), and (ii) TBI rats with the MSC dose of zero, 1x10(6), 2x10(6) and 4x10(6), administered intravenously at 1 day after injury. For the MCAo rats, 3x10(6) MSCs improved the 14 day functional recovery (P<0.05) compared to the controls. TBI rats with the MSC dose 4x10(6) were improved significantly at 1 month compared to controls, rats with 1x10(6) or 2x10(6) MSCs (P<0.05). The global test on multiple outcomes is more efficient than a single outcome when treatment effects are consistent. The less correlation among the outcomes, the more power and, therefore, the higher efficiency of the global test. We demonstrated that the global test for continuous outcomes could be implemented under careful statistical modeling and proper data transformation.
authors.affiliation: Department of Biostatistics and Research Epidemiology, Henry Ford Health Sciences Center, One Ford Place, 3E, Detroit, MI 48202, USA. mlu1@hfhs.org
authors.forename: Mei
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.forename: Jieli
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Chen
authors.forename: Dunyue
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Lu
authors.forename: Li
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Yi
authors.forename: Asim
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Mahmood
authors.forename: Michael
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Chopp
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D000818:Animals; D001854:Bone Marrow Cells / Q000166:cytology; D016026:Bone Marrow Transplantation / Q000379:methods; D001930:Brain Injuries / Q000628:therapy*; D008297:Male; D051381:Rats; D017208:Rats, Wistar; D020127:Recovery of Function / Q000502:physiology*; D020521:Stroke / Q000628:therapy*; D017154:Stromal Cells / Q000166:cytology / Q000637:transplantation; D016896:Treatment Outcome