Table 2.
Oxytocin (OT, pg/ml), platelet BDNF (PLT-BDNF, pg/mg proteins) and plasma BDNF (PPP-BDNF, pg/ml) levels in the total sample (panel a) and according to sex (panel b) with statistical analyses (Student's t-test or Mann-Whitney test*).
| Panel a. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| N | Min | Max | Mean | Std. Deviation | |
| OT | 26 | 6.70 | 22.40 | 13.92 | 4.54 |
| PLT-BDNF | 26 | 142.88 | 9372.27 | 1546.03 | 1844.28 |
| PPP-BDNF | 26 | 6854.75 | 13780.07 | 10110.78 | 1892.01 |
| Panel b. | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gender | N | Mean value | Std. Deviation | t/Z | p | |
| OT | Men | 12 | 12.02 | 4.36 | 2.106 | 0.0046 |
| Women | 14 | 15.55 | 4.17 | |||
| PPP-BDNF | Men | 12 | 10849.50 | 1932.12 | 1.943 | 0.64 |
| Women | 14 | 9477.59 | 1670.27 | |||
| PLT-BDNF* | Men | 12 | 2052.12 | 2516.85 | 1.132 | . 258 |
| Women | 14 | 1112.21 | 861.42 | |||