Table 4.

Oneway ANOVA of the coefficient of variation (CV) for the normalized mRNA expression of selected transcripts in five pre-defined endometrial sites obtained from seven cows with clinical endometritis (CE), four with subclinical endometritis (SE), and seven healthy control cows (HC) on days 28 to 34 postpartum.

Factor	Group	Mean	SD	SEM	CI lower bound	CI upper bound	P
PTGS2	CE	1.2	0.6	0.2	0.659	1.827	0.26
	SE	0.94	0.2	0.1	0.693	1.192
	HC	0.7	0.4	0.1	0.417	1.109
PTPRC	CE	0.8	0.5	0.2	0.372	1.197	0.83
	SE	0.8	0.4	0.2	0.107	1.452
	HC	0.6	0.2	0.1	0.431	0.867
CEACAM1	CE	0.7	0.3	0.1	0.454	1.042	0.73
	SE	0.6	0.2	0.1	0.263	0.972
	HC	0.7	0.2	0.1	0.475	0.937
IL1A	CE	1.1	0.6	0.2	0.552	1.670	0.82
	SE	1.4	0.7	0.3	0.339	2.413
	HC	1.3	0.7	0.3	0.676	1.932
IL1B	CE	1.2	0.41	0.1	0.802	1.503	0.75
	SE	1.2	0.7	0.4	0.105	2.373
	HC	1.0	0.4	0.1	0.676	1.378
CXCL8	CE	1.3	0.4	0.2	0.929	1.752	0.60
	SE	1.3	0.5	0.21	0.487	2.045
	HC	1.1	0.4	0.2	0.703	1.439
MUC4	CE	0.8	0.6	0.2	0.295	1.339	0.40
	SE	1.1	0.3	0.2	0.568	1.661
	HC	0.7	0.5	0.2	0.220	1.162
MUC16	CE	0.6	0.3	0.1	0.339	0.877	0.94
	SE	0.6	0.2	0.1	0.280	0.842
	HC	0.6	0.2	0.1	0.426	0.739

Mean, standard deviation (SD), and standard error of the mean (SEM) of CV. Lower and upper bound of confidence interval (CI) and P-value of multiple comparison (Scheffe test).

PTGS2, prostaglandin-endoperoxide synthase 2; PTPRC, protein tyrosine phosphatase receptor type C; CEACAM1, carcinoembryonic antigen related cell adhesion molecule 1; IL1A, interleukin 1 alpha; IL1B, interleukin 1 beta; CXCL8, C-X-C motif chemokine ligand 8; MUC4, mucin 4; MUC16, mucin 16.