Fig. 2

Carotid atheromas from men have a greater protein abundance in four functional groups. Functional groups, as a whole, and then individual proteins belonging to each group were tested for significant differences between men and women via univariate non-parametric Mann-Whitney U test, with significant p values; p* < 0.05, p** < 0.01 and p*** < 0.001. a Inflammatory response, b response to reactive oxygen species (ROS), c cell cycle and d transcription. Individual scatter plots for significantly altered proteins between men and women can be found in Additional file 1: Figure S1