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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Int Urogynecol J. 2021 Apr 16;33(2):327–335. doi: 10.1007/s00192-021-04792-0

Table 3.

Total collagen and sulphated glycosaminoglycan content

Mesh Total Collagen Content (%
tissue dry weight)
Sulphated Glycosaminoglycan Content (%
tissue dry weight)
Sham (n=10) 36.5 ± 7.8 1.47 ± 0.2
PP (n=7) 17.1 ± 6.1 0.68 ± 0.2
PDMS (n=9) 23.8 ± 8.4 0.96 ± 0.3
Overall p-value <0.001a < 0.001a
Sham vs PP <0.001b <0.001b
Sham vs PDMS 0.004b <0.001b
PP vs PDMS 0.244b 0.090b

Data represented as mean ± standard deviation.

a

P-value obtained using one-way ANOVAa followed by Gabriel’s post-hoc testb.