Polyploid giant cancer cells, cytokines and cytomegalovirus in breast cancer progression

Table 1 Correlation between PGCCs count and cytokines production in CTH cultures

	Correlation between PGCCs and the cytokines below	r	p-value
CTH-BL	TGF-β	− 0.127	0.59
CTH-DB	TGF-β	0.519	0.02*
CTH-BL	IL-10	− 0.444	0.05*
CTH-DB	IL-10	0.097	0.68
CTH-BL	IL-1β	− 0.291	0.21
CTH-DB	IL-1β	0.265	0.26
CTH-BL	IL-6	0.115	0.63
CTH-DB	IL-6	− 0.427	0.06
CTH-BL	All cytokines	− 0.127	0.59
CTH-DB	All cytokines	0.519	0.02*
CTH-BL	Pro-inflammatory cytokines	− 0.291	0.21
CTH-DB	Pro-inflammatory cytokines	0.265	0.26

All cytokines: TGF-β, IL-6, IL10, IL-1β, Pro-inflammatory cytokines: IL-1β and IL-6. (r) stands for correlation coefficient and (*) shows significant p-value ≤ 0.05. PGCCs Polyploid giant cancer cells, CTH Cytomegalovirus-Transformed HMECs, TGF-β Transforming growth factor beta, IL Interleukin

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