Table 1.

Apoptotic cell injection prevents rats from SCW-induced arthritis development

	Acute phase (day 3)		Remission phase (days 10 and 11)		Chronic phase (days 24 to 30)
	SCW + PBS	SCW + Apo	SCW + PBS	SCW + Apo	SCW + PBS	SCW + Apo
AI scorea	4.2 ± 0.8	2.0 ± 0.6	1.7 ± 0.7	0.5 ± 0.7	4.9 ± 3.5	1.3 ± 1.4
n	12	13	5	6	5	6
P valueb	0.041		0.052		0.030
Incidencec	10/12	7/13	4/5	2/6	5/5	3/6

Pooled results from of three independent experiments. n, number of rats. ^aArticular index score presented as mean ± standard error of the mean. ^bCompared between streptococcal cell wall (SCW) and SCW + apoptotic cells (Apo); Mann-Whitney rank-sum test, one tail. ^cNumber of rats with disease among the rats of each group; the lower number of animals in the chronic phase is due to sacrifice of animals at the end of the acute phase in some experiments.