Research Article
Infrapatellar Fat Pad: An Alternative Source of Adipose-Derived Mesenchymal Stem Cells
Table 4
Comparison of baseline characteristics between IPFP-ASCs and SC-ASCs.
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(%) | Subcutaneous
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(%) | value |
| | Gender | | | 1.000 | | Male | — | 1 (20.00) | | | Female | 5 (100.00) | 4 (80.00) | | | Age (yrs) | 65.80 9.09 | 30.40 13.16 | 0.001 | | BMI (kg/m2) | 23.75 3.23 | 23.52 7.82 | 0.953 | | Weight of fat collection (g) | 12.12 2.57 | 52.46 21.62 | 0.014 | | Number of ASCs isolation (P0) (106 cells) | 3.94 3.73 | 3.79 1.75 | 0.602 | | Number of ASCs (P0) per weight (104 cells/g) | 33.39 30.54 | 8.94 7.34 | 0.047 | | Incubation time to P2 (days) | 18.40 5.50 | 19.80 8.04 | 0.833 | | ASCs markers | | | | | Positive markers | | | | | CD 73 (%) | 99.69 0.26 | 99.60 0.26 | 0.591 | | CD 90 (%) | 91.43 10.79 | 93.85 6.71 | 0.917 | | CD 105 (%) | 90.63 9.49 | 87.85 19.79 | 0.917 | | Negative markers | | | | | CD 34 (%) | 1.24 1.54 | 1.46 2.22 | 0.917 | | CD 45 (%) | 0.17 0.08 | 0.16 0.12 | 0.882 | | HLA-DR (%) | 0.55 0.69 | 1.08 2.01 | 0.834 | | Colony-forming units (/100 cells) | 3.13 1.71 | 3.99 1.52 | 0.428 | | Size of CFU (mm2) | 9.91 4.72 | 12.99 3.26 | 0.263 |
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Mean SD. Fisher’s exact test. Mann-Whitney test.
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