Influence of species and anatomical location on chondrocyte expansion

Table 2 Comparison of cell number, cell size and granularity of growth factors treated chondrocytes to control groups

Cell number	FGFb	TGF-β1	FGFb/TGF-β1
EQ-F	0.003 ↑	0.0004 ↑	< 0.0001 ↑
EQ-S	0.0031 ↑	0.0002 ↑	< 0.0001 ↑
EQ-K	0.1500	0.7494	0.0077 ↑
OV-F	0.016 ↑	0.667	0.153
OV-S	< 0.0001 ↑	0.8037	0.0204 ↑
OV-K	0.1223	0.4245	0.1249
BO-F	< 0.0001 ↑	0.964	< 0.0001 ↑
Cell size
EQ-F	0.4983	0.4709	0.2509
EQ-S	0.8786	0.0061 ↓	0.2194
EQ-K	0.0033 ↑	0.4283	0.0008 ↑
OV-F	0.0343 ↓	0.4044	0.9033
OV-S	0.6132	< 0.0001 ↑	< 0.0001 ↑
OV-K	0.4310	0.0041 ↑	0.0041 ↑
BO-F	0.036 ↓	0.001 ↓	< 0.0001 ↓
Cell granularity
EQ-F	0.0015 ↓	0.0514	0.0009 ↓
EQ-S	0.0074 ↓	0.2470	0.0020 ↓
EQ-K	0.0995	0.0098 ↑	0.0273 ↓
OV-F	< 0.0001 ↓	0.0996	< 0.0001 ↓
OV-S	0.0092 ↓	0.0005 ↑	0.1356
OV-K	0.0008 ↓	0.3767	0.0009 ↓
BO-F	< 0.0001 ↓	0.6367	< 0.0001 ↓

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