Fetal and Postnatal Nicotine Exposure Modifies Maturation of Gonocytes to Spermatogonia in Mice

Table 2

Evaluated parameters (median and interquartile ranges) in control and nicotine-exposed animals.

Age (dpp)	Number of G in contact with BM/1000 μm^2		Number of G without contact with BM/1000 μm^2		Number of spermatogonia/1000 μm^2		Number of cells in proliferation/1000 μm^2
	Control	Nicotine	Control	Nicotine	Control	Nicotine	Control	Nicotine
3	0.978; 0.363-2.254	0.534; 0.273-1.352	0.416; 0.343-1.156	0.654; 0.307-1.515			10.380; 6.817-14.000	6.072; 2.539-9.539
7	1.645; 0.708-3.606	0.859; 0.328-1.926	0.010; 0.010-0.343	0.409; 0.353-0.873	0.144; 0.123-0.364	0.108; 0.088-0.140	1.1228; 0.324-1.868	1.074; 0.726-1.7462
10			0.010; 0.010-0.612	0.199; 0.124-0.406	1.291; 1.003-1.665	1.066; 0.398-1.701	5.122; 1.396-8.267	3.162; 0.317-8.605
16					1.712; 0.937-3.210	1.378; 1.005-1.761	2.114; 1.965-2.787	1.784; 1.093-2.290
35					0.912; 0.524-1.489	0.517; 0.216-0.892	6.809; 5.157-9.583	5.040; 3.102-7.630

control vs. nicotine of the same age. G = gonocyte; BM = basement membrane.