Table 5.

Correlation analysis of the relationship between corollaries of perinatal nutrition (plasma concentration of insulin, protein, glucose, lysine and glutamate at 24 h postnatal; birth weight, crown rump length on postnatal day seven, and average daily gain between birth and day seven) and variables used to evaluate mammary growth.

Variable	r/p	Histological Features			DNA		Protein		Protein/DNA
		PEA	% KI67		f	FSR	f	FSR	f	FSR
			Epi	Stroma
PEA	r		0.66	0.75	0.48	0.46	0.41	0.32	−0.49	−0.48
	p		0.01	0.00	0.09	0.11	0.16	0.29	0.09	0.10
% KI67-epi	r	0.66		0.86	0.38	0.37	0.61	0.63	−0.31	−0.22
	p	0.01		0.00	0.19	0.22	0.03	0.02	0.31	0.48
% KI-stroma	r	0.75	0.86		0.28	0.25	0.36	0.36	−0.36	−0.32
	p	<0.0001	<0.0001		0.35	0.40	0.22	0.22	0.23	0.29
DNA f	r	0.48	0.38	0.28		1.00	0.87	0.82	−0.90	−0.86
	p	0.09	0.19	0.35		<0.0001	<0.0001	0.0003	<0.0001	<0.0001
DNA FSR	r	0.46	0.37	0.25	1.00		0.86	0.82	−0.88	−0.84
	p	0.11	0.22	0.40	<0.0001		<0.0001	0.0003	<0.0001	0.0002
protein f	r	0.41	0.61	0.36	0.87	0.86		0.98	−0.70	−0.59
	p	0.16	0.03	0.22	<0.0001	<0.0001		<0.0001	0.01	0.03
protein FSR	r	0.32	0.63	0.36	0.82	0.82	0.98443		−0.65	−0.54
	p	0.29	0.02	0.22	0.0003	0.0003	<0.0001		0.01	0.05
protein/DNA f	r	−0.49	−0.31	−0.36	−0.90	−0.88	−0.70	−0.65		0.99
	p	0.09	0.31	0.23	<0.0001	< 0.0001	0.006	0.012		<0.0001
protein/DNA FSR	r	−0.48	−0.22	−0.32	−0.86	−0.84	−0.59	−0.54	0.99
	p	0.10	0.48	0.29	<0.0001	0.0002	0.03	0.05	<0.0001
birthweight	r	0.33	−0.14	−0.02	0.00	0.01	−0.31	−0.34	0.07	−0.02
	p	0.27	0.65	0.94	1.00	0.97	0.29	0.24	0.80	0.94
crown rump day 7	r	0.44	0.04	0.04	0.60	0.61	0.37	0.31	−0.41	−0.44
	p	0.14	0.89	0.89	0.02	0.02	0.20	0.28	0.14	0.11
insulin	r	−0.08	0.13	0.17	0.14	0.13	0.10	0.12	−0.19	−0.19
	p	0.80	0.67	0.58	0.64	0.65	0.73	0.68	0.52	0.51
average daily gain	r	0.54	0.23	0.17	0.87	0.88	0.68	0.60	−0.68	−0.67
	p	0.05	0.44	0.58	<0.0001	<0.0001	0.006	0.02	0.009	0.008
glucose	r	−0.32	0.04	−0.10	0.24	0.23	0.28	0.37	−0.27	−0.24
	p	0.29	0.90	0.74	0.41	0.43	0.33	0.20	0.36	0.42
protein	r	0.42	0.43	0.27	0.25	0.26	0.38	0.36	0.05	0.10
	p	0.15	0.14	0.37	0.39	0.37	0.18	0.21	0.86	0.73
lysine	r	0.41	0.27	0.45	0.57	0.57	0.42	0.37	−0.56	−0.56
	p	0.16	0.38	0.12	0.03	0.03	0.13	0.19	0.04	0.04
glutamate	r	−0.55	−0.39	−0.33	−0.37	−0.35	−0.28	−0.25	0.47	0.48
	p	0.05	0.18	0.27	0.19	0.21	0.33	0.39	0.09	0.09