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. 2009 Oct;139(10):1908–1913. doi: 10.3945/jn.109.108225

TABLE 2.

Reproductive tissue proliferation in SHAM-operated and OVX rats fed diets containing various levels of equol¹

	Treatments
	SHAM	OVX-0	OVX-50	OVX-100	OVX-200
Mammary tissue
Gland proliferation	1.94 ± 0.570^a	0.53 ± 0.740^b	0.38 ± 0.50^b	0.47 ± 0.510^b	0.94 ± 0.570^b
PCNA, %	14.8 ± 15.3^a	1.98 ± 2.11^b	1.14 ± 1.66^b	2.32 ± 3.72^b	2.59 ± 4.70^b
Uterine tissue
Epithelial proliferation	1.94 ± 0.770^a	0.000 ± 0.000^c	0.130 ± 0.340^c	0.330 ± 0.490^bc	0.750 ± 0.580^b
Epithelial PCNA, %	37.6 ± 21.8^a	1.14 ± 2.09^b	0.670 ± 1.15^b	8.95 ± 12.4^a	15.3 ± 18.0^a
Stroma PCNA, %	19.2 ± 21.1^a	0.650 ± 1.45^b	0.920 ± 1.92^b	2.67 ± 2.99^ab	4.18 ± 3.98^a

¹

Values are means ± SD, n = 15–16. Means without a common letter differ, P < 0.05.