Table 1. Demoscopic data and results of adults and term neonates.

	Adults	Term neonates
Results (Mean ± SE)		Vaginal delivery	C.S. all types of anaesthesia	C.S. spinal anaesthesia	C.S. Epidural anaesthesia	C.S. general anaesthesia
n	30	13	31	13	11	7
Gestational age (w)		40 ± 1	38 ± 4	38 ± 1	38 ± 5	38 ± 5
Birth weight (g)		3737 ± 124	3176 ± 94	3065 ± 151	3118 ± 154	3456 ± 175
Leukocytes/nl	6.41 ± 0.24	12.57 ± 1.41	9.16 ± 0.73	11.1 ± 0.95	6.32 ± 0.76	9.73 ± 1.83
Neutrophils/nl	3.64 ± 0.21	6.75 ± 0.91	4.37 ± 0.51	5.77 ± 0.81	2.68 ± 0.71	4.18 ± 0.81
Number of migrated PMN
PBS	1220 ± 251	5328 ± 1575	3134 ± 773	4845 ± 1532	2262 ± 888	1206 ± 509
fMLP	13495 ± 1456	9530 ± 1839	4574 ± 733	6100 ± 1184	3091 ± 1146	4068 ± 1385
FSC
PBS Insert	375 ± 12.1	516.7 ± 14.6	441.5 ± 8.6	429.2 ± 12	442.5 ± 16.1	462.4 ± 17
PBS	404.6 ± 9.4	556.5 ± 11.8	481.2 ± 12.3	483.6 ± 9.3	455.9 ± 27.7	513 ± 29.4
fMLP	635.1 ± 10.4	622.1 ± 8.3	535.6 ± 14.6	553.8 ± 14.2	493.6 ± 32	567.6 ± 23.5
L-Selectin (RFI)
PBS Insert	68.5 ± 3.3	22.4 ± 4	35.7 ± 3.7	47.6 ± 3.9	25 ± 6.9	30 ± 6.7
PBS	35 ± 2.8	16.2 ± 2.1	19.6 ± 1.7	18.6 ± 1.5	16.6 ± 2.3	25.8 ± 5.8
fMLP	5.5 ± 0.1	5.9 ± 0.2	7.5 ± 0.9	5.5 ± 0.2	8.9 ± 1.7	9.3 ± 3.2
CD62 negative %
PBS Insert	10.6 ± 1.8	67.9 ± 6.4	51.1 ± 4.9	36.1 ± 3.9	68.1 ± 9.4	52.3 ± 10.5
PBS	48 ± 3.6	79.8 ± 4.6	74.2 ± 3.2	79.2 ± 3.5	75.8 ± 5.0	62.5 ± 8.7
fMLP	99,2 ± 0,1	98,7 ± 0,4	94,7 ± 1,9	99,2 ± 0,2	91,9 ± 2,0	90,8 ± 7,6