Significance of differences in CSF metabolites between CIS patients with and without inflammatory MS plaques and controls.

<p>P values for a nonparametric (Mann-Whitney U) and a parametric (Fisher's PLSD) test (see <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0000595#s4" target="_blank">Materials and Methods</a> for details of the statistical evaluation). Bold characters indicate significance at the p<0.05 level, while regular characters indicate borderline significance (0.05Figure 1 (see also <a href="http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0000595#pone-0000595-t002" target="_blank">Table 2</a> for a summary).