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Table 4 Lymphocyte proliferation in cord blood and maternal peripheral blood with and without CD25+ depletion

From: Characterization of regulatory T cells in urban newborns

  

Proliferation Index (PI)*

 
  

CD25+ Undepleted

CD25+ Depleted

 
 

N

Median

Range

Median

Range

Wilcoxon

p-value

Cord blood

78

101.8

5.7–776.7

109.9

5.4–943.6

0.56

Maternal Peripheral blood

52

216.7

1.0–713.8

238.3

0.7–798.0

0.02

  1. * Proliferation index (PI) is calculated as ratio of mean counts per minute (cpm) of stimulated over mean cpm of unstimulated cell triplicates.