Table 2. Inflammatory Cell Distributions and Whole Blood Metal Levels.
| Proportions of haematopoietic cells (%) | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Patient | Macro-phages | T cells | B cells | granulo-cytes | B-Cr (μg/l) | B-Co (μg/l) |
| 1 | 45.7 | 27.0 | no data | 3.03 | 28.8 | 64.9 |
| 2 | 51.2 | 20.7 | no data | 2.24 | 36.2 | 114.3 |
| 3 | 42.7 | 42.4 | 0.09 | 4.01 | 13.3 | 14.2 |
| 4 | 30.4 | 50.2 | 1.20 | 2.06 | 3.5 | 13.8 |
| 5 | 53.7 | 29.9 | 7.25 | 1.15 | 20.6 | 18.7 |
| 6 | 15.0 | 48.5 | 8.92 | 4.90 | 2.9 | 2.5 |
| 7 | 30.4 | 31.8 | 19.2 | 1.44 | 12.2 | 20.0 |
| 8 | 56.8 | 15.8 | 0.05 | 13.0 | 45.2 | 113.3 |
| 9 | 68.4 | 18.5 | 0.34 | 3.54 | 9.3 | 22.1 |
| 10 | 43.9 | 34.9 | 12.3 | 0.73 | 53.5 | 96.9 |
| 11 | 55.2 | 27.0 | 3.07 | 1.13 | 11.8 | 14.2 |
| 12 | 15.7 | 54.8 | 6.44 | 1.00 | 8.2 | 13.2 |
| 13 | 16.3 | 59.3 | 0.73 | 1.17 | 1.3 | 5.9 |
| 14 | 25.8 | 54.2 | 11.5 | 1.50 | 2.7 | 10.7 |
| 15 | 29.4 | 31.8 | 0.72 | 2.15 | 21.6 | 36.3 |
| 16 | 18.1 | 55.1 | 12.3 | 0.98 | 3.3 | 10.5 |
B-Cr = whole blood chromium; B-Co = whole blood cobalt
CD45+ cells were defined as hematopoietic cells, CD45+CD14+ as macrophages, CD45+CD3+ as T-lymphocytes (T cells), CD45+CD19+ as B-lymphocytes (B cells) and CD45+CD15+ as granulocytes.