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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Dec 17.
Published in final edited form as: Prostate. 2014 Oct 18;75(3):255–265. doi: 10.1002/pros.22911

TABLE I.

Inverse Relationship Between GDF-15 Expression and Inflammatory Cell Staining in Human Prostate

Target assoc. with GDF-15 Correlation coefficient (r) P-value
Epithelial/peri-epithelial (0–45 μm from lumen)
 CD3 −0.44 0.005
 CD4 −0.46 0.003
 CD8 −0.43 0.006
 CD68 −0.44 0.005
 Inos+ −0.33 0.041
 Arginine+ −0.18 0.278
Stromal (45–300 μm from lumen)
 CD3 −0.52 0.006
 CD4 −0.47 0.002
 CD8 −0.52 0.006
 CD68 −0.51 0.009
 Inos+ −0.56 0.0002
 Arginine+ −0.22 0.187