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Published in final edited form as: Brain Behav Immun. 2010 Nov 11;25(5):1000–1007. doi: 10.1016/j.bbi.2010.11.003

Table 1. Steroid hormone receptor expression in leukocytes from lymphoid and non-lymphoid tissues.

Flow cytometry was used to evaluate steroid hormone receptors expressed in CD45⁺ leukocytes from kidney, liver, spleen, and thymus. Table shows percentage of total cells expressing the specified steroid hormone receptor. Data are presented as mean values ± standard deviation. Statistical analysis evaluated each tissue type with the indicated steroid hormone receptor and was performed using one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA). Statistical significance was reached for each steroid hormone receptor when all tissues were compared. (n=9).

	Tissue				P Value
Receptor	Kidney^a	Liver^b	Spleen^c	Thymus^d	a vs. b	a vs. c	a vs. d	b vs. c	b vs. d	c vs. d	all groups
Glucocorticoid	55.2 ± 14.1	40.2 ± 16.2	28.4 ± 3.7	56.5 ± 22.9	0.315	0.006	1.00	0.739	0.217	0.004	0.002
Androgen	21.8 ± 5.4	10.6 ± 2.6	26.9 ± 4.3	30.1 ± 4.8	<0.001	0.117	0.002	<0.001	<0.001	0.796	<0.001
Progesterone	67.1 ± 25.1	35.8 ± 23.6	57.6 ± 26.2	42.6 ± 23.3	0.066	1.00	0.254	0.414	1.00	1.00	0.045