Table 2.

Quantitation of ovarian section area, follicles, and fibrillin-3 staining in controls (case numbers 1–22) and PCOS samples (case numbers 23–31)

Case number	Age	Number of TF	Number of Fibr-3-positive TFs	Total number of all non-TF follicles	Ovary (mm2/slide)	TF/mm2	Fibr-3-positive TF/mm2
1	43	354	39	63	1166	0.3	0.0334
2	19	307	4	19	656	0.47	0.0061
3	17	41	1	9	139	0.3	0.0072
4	29	83	3	7	296	0.28	0.0101
5	30	177	4	2	121	1.46	0.0331
6	34	410	11	18	515	0.8	0.0214
7	34	281	123	48	1146	0.25	0.1073
8	31	62	23	7	306	0.2	0.0752
9	27	103	5	8	279	0.37	0.0179
10	40	213	97	45	853	0.25	0.1137
11	38	116	22	19	719	0.16	0.0306
12	38	39	2	8	145	0.26	0.0138
13	27	272	8	15	924	0.29	0.0087
14	40	17	3	17	1221	0.01	0.0025
15	34	46	3	0	453	0.1	0.0066
16	45	40	21	0	442	0.09	0.0475
17	34	53	23	0	203	0.26	0.1133
18	40	104	54	13	614	0.17	0.0879
19	45	6	0	0	274	0.02	Stromal foci
20	46	0	Focal stroma	0	655	0	Stromal foci
21	51	0	Focal stroma	0	508	0	Stromal foci
22	46	0	Focal stroma	0	461	0	Stromal foci
23a	38	125	6	29	544	0.23	0.011
24a	35	20	1	6	287	0.07	0.0035
25a	17	128	0	17	430	0.3	0
26a	24	112	0	40	1084	0.01	0
27a	34	38	0	9	413	0.09	0
28a	37	29	4	26	573	0.05	0.007
29a	39	37	0	15	641	0.06	0
30a	19	76	0	5	171	0.44	0
31a	45	99	40	5	425	0.23	0.0941

^aPCOS ovaries.

Control samples (cases 1–18) and PCOS ovaries (cases 23–31) are included in the statistical analysis. Senescent ovaries (cases 19–22) are excluded from statistical analysis. Fibr-3, fibrillin-3.