Research Article
Fas-Related Apoptosis of Peritoneal Fluid Macrophages in Endometriosis Patients: Understanding the Disease
Table 1
The mean (±SD) concentration of leukocytes, percentage of macrophages, and MFI of CD14 antigen in peritoneal fluid.
| | Endometriotic patients
() | Stage I
() | Stage II
() | Stage III/IV
() | Reference group
() |
| | Concentration of PF leukocytes (cells/mm3) | 2215 ± 1030 | 2490 ± 1116 | 2210 ± 1099 | 1620 ± 377
NS | 1231 ± 420 | | Percentage of PF macrophages CD45+/CD14+ (%) | 83.2 ± 7.8 | 84.2 ± 6.5 | 85.4 ± 5.58 | 67.6 ± 11.6
NS | 57.7 ± 12.4 | | MFI of CD14 antigen | 132.8 ± 32.4
NS | 119.4 ± 27.5
NS | 144.5 ± 28.2
NS | 138.9 ± 45.1
NS | 135.9 ± 19.9 |
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Statistically significant compared to reference group (). NS: statistically nonsignificant.
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