Table 3.

Representative MC numbers from skin vs. liposuction tissue using conditioned medium.

Adipose source	Starting grams or ml	MC numbers at 8 weeks	Cells per gram/ml
Skin resection; BF	50 g	9.9 × 106	2.0 × 105
Skin resection; BF	27 g	8.6 × 106	3.2 × 105
Skin resection; WF	23 g	7.9 × 106	3.4 × 105
Skin resection; WF	32 g	2.4 × 107	7.5 × 105
Skin resection; WF	38 g	8.9 × 107	7.6 × 105
		Average/g	4.8 × 105
Lipo; WF	150 ml	4.1 × 107	2.7 × 105
Lipo; WF	500 ml	3.2 × 108	6.4 × 105
Lipo; WF	750 ml	5.6 × 108	7.5 × 105
Lipo; WF	200 ml	7.1 × 107	3.6 × 105
		Average/ml	5.1 × 105

BF, Black female; WF, White female.