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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jan 30.
Published in final edited form as: Circulation. 2017 Aug 3;137(5):488–503. doi: 10.1161/CIRCULATIONAHA.117.028533

Table 2. Correlation of the percentage of male donor cells in draining lymph nodes (dLN) with Lymphatic flow index, inflammatory cell infiltrate or lymphatic vessel density.

Correlation Lymphatic Flow Index Number CD4+ cells in graft Number CD8+ cells in graft Number CD68+ cells in graft Number of LYVE-1+ lymphatic vessels Area of LYVE-1+ lymphatic vessels
% dLN DNA that is male vs. p <0.0001 **** 0.2264 0.0081* 0.3711 0.3711 0.2005
R2 0.9877 0.3377 0.8566 0.02021 0.2021 0.3632
rs 1 -0.5 1 0.5 0.5 -0.5

R2- using linear regression analyses; rs- Spearman rank correlation coefficient;

p- probability calculated by spearman rank correlation

(* P ≤ 0.05 ** P ≤ 0.01 *** P ≤ 0.001 **** P ≤ 0.0001)