Please explain this table (just the endothelial cell density)
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Please explain this table (just the endothelial cell density)
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Diabetes
3a
3b
Hypertension
4a
4b
Control
Endothelial cell
density (cells/
Age (years)/sex mm²)
80/M
83/M
83/F
78/F
65/M
88/M
60/F
65/M
2450
1850
1900
1650
1600
1900
2600
1850
2450
1800
Clinical data
unbalanced type 2 diabetes
unbalanced type 2 diabetes
balanced type 2 diabetes
hypertension
hypertension
hypertension
Presence of collagen
(SHG microscopy)
center
++
N/A
N/A
N/A
N/A
periphery
N/A
**
+++
+
N/A
N/A
Other imaging
techniques
TEM
Histology, TEM
Histology, TEM
Histology, TEM
TEM
Histology, TEM
Grading is as follows: N/A: not available. -:absence of fibrillar collagen, + few fibrillar collagen, ++: great concentration of fibrillar collagen, +++: fibrillar collagen over
the whole field of view.
doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0048388.1002
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