Humoral Influence of Repeated Lineage-Negative Stem/Progenitor Cell Administration on Articulatory Functions in ALS Patients

Table 1

Clinical characteristic of the study groups.

Characteristic	Group I ()	Group II ()	Group III ()	value
				I vs. II	I vs. III	II vs. III
Age (, years)				0.91^a	0.69^a	0.77^a
Sex (male/female)	5/1	16/11	3/6	0.05^b
Disease onset (bulbar/limb)	0/6	7/20	3/6	0.30^c
Symptom duration (, months)				0.01^a	0.03^a	0.70^a
Number of Lin^− cells administered
No. 1				0.60^a	0.95^a	0.19^a
No. 2				0.48^a	0.33^a	0.69^a
No. 3				0.60^a	0.33^a	0.28^a
Baseline (day 0) ALS-FRSr score ()				0.95^a	0.95^a	0.80^a
Baseline (day 0) Norris scale score ()				0.80^a	0.69^a	0.52^a

^aMann–Whitney test. ^b Spearman’s rank correlation coefficient. ^cPearson’s chi-squared test. is highlighted in bold font.