Measures

Maternal Treatment

P-value

Control

Probiotics

Plasma Cortisol, ng/mL

35.2 ± 3.1

38.5 ± 3.12

0.447

White Blood Cell (WBC), 10⁷/10 mL

3.4 ± 0.48

3.5 ± 0.48

0.985

Neutrophils, %

42.0 ± 1.3

36.8 ± 1.3

0.011

Lymphocytes, %

55.5 ± 1.3

60.0 ± 1.3

0.021

Monocytes, %

2.15 ± 0.41

2.22 ± 0.42

0.894

Eosinophils, %

0.53 ± 0.09

0.65 ± 0.09

0.325

Neutrophil-to-Lymphocyte Ratio

0.95 ± 0.07

0.72 ± 0.07

0.018

Chemotaxis-C5a, no./5 fields

35.2 ± 7.2

80.4 ± 7.5

<0.0001

Chemotaxis-IL8, no./5 fields

43.1 ± 8.8

78.0 ± 9.4

0.008

Neutrophil phagocytosis, %

62.8 ± 1.6

64.4 ± 1.6

0.490

NK Cytotoxicity, %

64.0 ± 2.8

74.0 ± 2.7

0.047

Concanavalin-A proliferation

2.32 ± 0.19

2.21 ± 0.19

0.584

Lipopolysaccharide proliferation

1.20 ± 0.08

1.78 ± 0.08

0.017

Interleukin-12, pg/mL

190.1 ± 21.5

299.5 ± 21.7

0.760