Assessment of Myometrial Concentrations of Oestrogen and Progesterone Receptors in the Lower Uterine Segment of Full-Term Pregnancies in Presence or Absence of Labour

Table 1

Full-term pregnant women in labour (Group I) and full-term pregnant women without labour (Group II) and their concentrations of myometrial oestrogen and progesterone receptors.

(a)  

	Oestrogen		Progesterone
	I	II	I	II
	39.9	53.3	29.8	60.0
	39.3	55.4	30.2	48.3
	49.0	62.7	28.9	53.8
	23.4	56.6	29.7	62.6
	22.9	70.0	24.6	50.4
	25.3	23.6	25.7	22.1
		44.1		30.4
		37.5		33.9
		43.6		20.4
		44.0		25.1
		30.0		29.5
		36.3		37.9
		34.2		30.1
		32.8		22.5
		34.4		18.3
Mean	33.3	43.9	28.2	36.4
Median	32.3	43.6	29.3	30.4

(b)  

Mann-Whitney test
(Group I versus Group II)
𝑍 critical = 1.96
Oestrogen	Progesterone
𝑍 calculated = 1.56	𝑍 calculated = 0.93