Levels of Circulating Microparticles in Lung Cancer Patients and Possible Prognostic Value
Figure 3
Illustration of the comparison of plasma levels of microparticles to different cell types of lung cancer (LC). (a) Apoptotic EDMP against different cell types of LC, ; (b) apoptotic PDMP plotted against different cell types of LC, ; (c) activated EDMP plotted against different cell types of LC, ; (d) activated PDMP plotted against different cell types of LC, . AdC = adenocarcinoma (); SqC = squamous carcinoma (); SmC = small cell lung cancer (). In these plots, the dot within the line represents the median values; the upper and lower lines represent the 25th and 75th percentiles, respectively. The analysis was performed using the Kruskal-Wallis test. EDMP = endothelium-derived microparticles; PDMP = platelet-derived microparticles.
