Comprehensive multiplexed protein quantitation delineates eosinophilic and neutrophilic experimental asthma

BMC Pulmonary Medicine

Table 3 Pearson correlation coefficients of BAL protein levels versus inflammatory cell counts

	TOTAL	NEU	EOS	MAC	LYM
S100-A9	0.732	0.898	ns	0.698	ns
CFAB	ns	ns	ns	0.811	ns
PGAM1	ns	0.930	ns	ns	ns
PLMN	-0.756	ns	ns	-0.884	ns
IGH1M	0.867	0.894	ns	0.656	0.717
PLSL	ns	0.780	ns	0.621	ns
PIGR	ns	0.736	ns	ns	0.704
CXCL-15	ns	ns	ns	0.876	ns
H2B1A	ns	ns	ns	0.710	ns
IGJ	ns	ns	ns	0.732	ns
ECP2	ns	ns	ns	0.655	ns
CH3L3	0.807	ns	ns	0.787	ns
FINC	0.676	0.824	ns	ns	0.743
CRAMP	0.664	0.755	ns	0.767	ns
GSHR	ns	ns	ns	0.868	ns
PGRP1	ns	0.643	ns	0.769	ns
H4	ns	ns	ns	0.885	ns
1433E	ns	ns	ns	0.663	ns
CBR2	ns	ns	0.818	ns	-0.755
CO3	0.736	ns	ns	ns	ns
IL-2	ns	ns	0.682	ns	ns
IL-9	ns	ns	0.788	ns	ns
IL-12p40	ns	ns	ns	0.716	ns
IL-13	0.771	ns	ns	0.860	ns
Eotaxin	0.688	ns	0.723	ns	ns
Interferon γ	ns	ns	0.663	ns	ns
GM-CSF	0.758	ns	ns	0.650	ns
MIP-1b	ns	ns	ns	0.688	ns
TNF	ns	ns	ns	0.679	ns

Definition of abbreviations: Neu neutrophils, Eos eosinophils, Mac macrophages and Lym lymphocytes. R > 0.5 and R < -0.5 are considered strong positive and negative linear correlation, respectively. Ns: no significant correlation, p > 0.05.

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