Table 2.

Correlation between renal function and the number of renal stem/progenitor cells

		BUN	Cr	CD133	CD24
BUN	Pearson Correlation	1	0.966**	−0.979**	−0.912*
	Sig. (1-tailed)		0.004	0.002	0.015
Cr	Pearson Correlation	0.966**	1	−0.946**	−0.799
	Sig. (1-tailed)	0.004		0.008	0.053
CD133	Pearson Correlation	−0.979**	−0.946**	1	0.935**
	Sig. (1-tailed)	0.002	0.008		0.01
CD24	Pearson Correlation	−0.912*	−0.799	0.935**	1
	Sig. (1-tailed)	0.015	0.053	0.01

BUN blood urea nitrogen; Cr serum creatinine

*, p < 0.05; **, p < 0.01