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Official Journal of the Italian Society of Orthopaedics and Traumatology

Table 2 Prevalence of nitric oxide in apoptotic chondrocytes in fracture

From: Nitric oxide-associated chondrocyte apoptosis in trauma patients after high-energy lower extremity intra-articular fractures

Positive for nitric oxide

Positive for apoptosis

SD

Negative for apoptosis

SD

P

Fracture group n = 24

58.7 % (0–100)

36.3 %

19.6 % (0–93)

28.7 %

<0.001

Control group n = 9

11.1 % (0–100)

33.3 %

9.9 % (0–27)

10.4 %

0.919

  1. Percentage was calculated per section of cartilage; n is the number of chondrocytes evaluated in each group