Table 5.
Comparison of the saccharide concentrations (pmoles per μg DNA) in thecal cells from healthy and atretic follicles.
| Saccharides | Health |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Healthy |
Atretic |
*p-value |
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| Median | Inter-quartile Range | Median | Inter-quartile Range | |||
| Chondroitin saccharides | ∆Di0S | 5.4 | 7.1 | 5.0 | 7.0 | 0.816 |
| ∆Di4S | 38.1 | 19.7 | 45.7 | 38.6 | 0.323 | |
| ∆Di6S | 21.4 | 10.6 | 18.7 | 9.7 | 0.797 | |
| ∆Di4,6S | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.338 | |
| ∆Di2,4,6S | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.179 | |
| Hyaluronan saccharide | ∆DiHA | 2.6 | 10.6 | 5.1 | 9.0 | 0.700 |
| † Heparan saccharides | ΔU-G-NAc | 1.9 | 1.3 | 3.0 | 2.1 | 0.013 |
| ΔU-G-NS | 0.0 | 0.9 | 0.7 | 2.2 | 0.054 | |
| ΔU-G(6S)-NAc | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.5 | 0.072 | |
| ΔU-G-(6S)-NS | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.4 | 0.4 | 0.045 | |
| ΔU(2S)-G-NS | 0.0 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.8 | 0.030 | |
| ΔU(2S)-G(6S)-NS | 0.3 | 0.5 | 0.5 | 0.7 | 0.122 | |
*Wilcoxon test.
† Number of observations n = 12 except for the HS saccharides where n = 18.