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Table 3 Differentially expressed peaks in BPH with inflammation vs BPH without inflammation detected by SELDI-ToF-MS

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

Peak

m/z

BPH with inflammation intensity peak

BPH without inflammation intensity peak

t-test p-value

Increased

    

1

[2325]

3.28

1.32

0.016

2

[2348]

3.34

1.84

0.013

3

[2373]

2.93

1.10

0.009

4

[2581]

1.06

0.33

0.007

5

[3104]

1.74

0.88

0.037

Decreased

    

1

6433

9.65

12.61

0.009

2

[6624]

18.39

24.54

0.017

3

[6837]

2.51

3.19

0.018

4

[9352]

1.92

2.38

0.037

5

[14031]

3.49

4.98

0.012

6

[14106]

2.00

2.66

0.036

7

[14473]

0.68

0.85

0.033

8

[22668]

0.07

0.10

0.011

9

[28052]

2.82

3.90

0.033

10

[45350]

0.94

1.23

0.037

  1. Statistical analysis performed by Student’s t test. The table shows the p-values statistically significant (p ≤ 0.05). Protein peaks in square: protein peaks found also in the comparison between PCa and BPH excluding samples with inflammation (Table 1).