Table 2 of Brejchova, Mol Vis 2009; 15:2364-2372.


Table 2. The immunohistochemical localization of individual MMPs in the corneal specimens obtained from two patients with pSS (S1-8 and S9-11 respectively) and the average values of immunohistochemical staining in all melted specimens (S) and controls (C).

MMP Corneal layer Sample
S1 S2 S3 S4 S5 S6 S7 S8 S9 S10 S11 S C
MMP 1 Ep 4 4 D D D 2 D 4 4 D D 4 2
  AS 3 4 3 2 3 1 4 4 4 2 3 3 0
  PS 2 3 2 2 4 2 3 4 4 1 3 3 0
  En 0 3 D D 0 0 D D 2 D D 1 1
MMP 2 Ep 3 3 D D D 4 3 2 4 D D 3 2
  AS 4 2 2 0 4 2 2 3 3 2 3 2 1
  PS 3 2 1 0 1 0 0 3 0 2 1 1 0
  En 2 1 0 0 3 2 0 D 1 0 0 1 0
MMP 3 Ep 2 2 D D D 2 0 2 3 2 3 2 0
  AS 2 2 1 0 2 1 4 2 4 0 2 2 0
  PS 1 0 2 0 2 1 4 2 4 0 2 2 0
  En D 0 0 0 1 0 D D 2 D D 1 0
MMP 7 Ep 0 4 D D D 4 3 4 0 D 4 3 0
  AS 0 1 2 0 3 2 1 3 0 0 2 1 0
  PS 0 1 2 0 3 1 1 3 0 0 2 1 0
  En D D D 0 2 1 D D 0 D D 1 0
MMP 8 Ep 2 4 D D D 1 0 2 2 D D 2 1
  AS 2 1 1 2 3 2 0 2 1 2 4 2 0
  PS 0 1 0 2 3 1 0 2 1 1 4 1 0
  En D D 0 D 2 0 0 D 2 0 D 1 1
MMP 9 Ep 2 4 D D D 1 2 2 4 D 3 3 0
  AS 3 3 1 3 4 4 2 3 1 2 3 3 0
  PS 1 3 0 1 2 3 2 3 1 1 4 2 0
  En 4 2 D 1 2 1 D D 1 D 0 2 0
MMP 13 Ep 0 0 D D D 1 0 1 0 D D 0 0
  AS 0 0 1 0 2 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
  PS 0 0 1 0 2 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0
  En D 0 0 0 1 0 D D 0 0 D 0 0