Functional osteoclastogenesis: the baseline variability in blood donor precursors is not associated with age and gender.

For the OC cultures obtained with the standard procedure the number of monocytes, neutrophils and lymphocytes in peripheral blood was not significantly different in respect of the OCs obtained, whereas there was a highly significant difference ( p = 2.4×10 −6 ) respect to the number of recovered monocytes, suggesting that OC number was proportional to the recovered monocytes and directly dependent on the number of OC precursors isolated (Table 2 ).

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