Inflammation: an important parameter in the search of prostate cancer biomarkers

Table 1 Differentially expressed peaks in PCa vs BPH excluding samples with inflammation detected by SELDI-ToF-MS

Peak	m/z	PCa intensity peak	BPH intensity peak	t-test p-value
Increased
1	2325	4.29	1.32	0.002
2	2348	3.97	1.18	0.006
3	2373	3.27	1.10	0.005
4	2581	1.34	0.33	0.002
5	3104	2.19	0.88	0.007
Decreased
1	6624	17.63	24.54	0.037
2	6837	2.37	3.19	0.010
3	9352	1.84	2.38	0.033
4	9922	0.44	0.66	0.048
5	13775	1.21	1.67	0.049
6	14031	2.76	4.98	0.001
7	14106	1.67	2.66	0.005
8	14473	0.55	0.85	0.0003
9	14763	0.57	0.76	0.002
10	22668	0.06	0.10	0.003
11	28052	2.05	3.90	0.003
12	28242	1.42	2.33	0.011
13	29018	0.48	0.93	0.003
14	45350	0.78	1.23	0.002
15	56390	0.84	1.32	0.026

Statistical analysis was performed by Student’s t test. The table shows the p-values statistically significant (p ≤ 0.05).

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