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Published in final edited form as: Int Arch Allergy Immunol. 2002 Jan;127(1):63–72. doi: 10.1159/000048170

Table 3.

Correlation of C3a concentration in the BAL with the numbers of inflammatory cells 24 h after intratracheal instillation of GPSA or TMA-GPSA

	Correlation coefficients

	immature		mature

	females	males	females	males
Cell infiltration into airspace
Eosinophils	0.60^*	0.60^*	0.02	0.87^*
Neutrophils	0.76^*	0.71^*	0.56	0.65^*
Macrophages	0.66^*	0.77^*	0.12	0.64^*

Cell infiltration into the lung
Lung EPO	0.24	0.27	0.45	0.60^*
Lung MPO	0.10	0.48^*	0.34	−0.11

RBC in BAL	0.62^*	0.90^*	0.19	0.58^*
Protein in BAL	0.77^*	0.90^*	0.80^*	0.86^*

Values are Pearson correlation coefficients (r). Data were log-transformed before analysis.

p < 0.05.