| Parameters |
Control (n=122) |
Arsenic exposed (n=145) |
| Total cells/hpf |
56.5±19.6 |
78.3±28.4* |
| Neutrophil/hpf |
49.8±15.2 |
63.9±22.6 * |
| Eosinophil/hpf |
0.3±0.1 |
1.5±0.4* |
| Lymphocyte/hpf |
3.2±0.8 |
5.9±1.8* |
| Alveolar macrophage/hpf |
2.7±0.7 |
5.1±1.6* |
| Non-squamous epithelial cells/hpf |
0.4±0.2 |
1.8±0.6* |
Results are mean ± SD; *p<0.05 compared with control in Student’s t-test;, hpf,
high power field of microscope (400x) |
