Figure 1.

Blood EPC numbers in mice. Female mice received endometriotic (black columns) or sham lesions (gray columns) during abdominal surgery or were not operated upon (control subjects, white columns). Whole blood was taken after 1 week and stained for EPC markers (flow cytometry). Female C57BL/6 mice received four lesions (A) or six lesions (B) (*P < 0.05; **P < 0.001, posthoc Bonferroni test). Female 129SvJ mice received six lesions (C). All experiments were performed with n = 10 per group. Values shown are mean ± SEM (*P < 0.05; **P = 0.007, posthoc Bonferroni test).