Table 2 of Wakamatsu, Mol Vis 2010; 16:2465-2475.


Table 2. Correlations between tear IL-4, IL-5, and TNF-α cytokine levels and HEL and 4-HNE positively stained cells.

  Oxidative lipid peroxidation marker staining (%)
  HEL 4-HNE
Protein Spearman correlation coefficient p value Spearman correlation coefficient p value
IL-4 r=0.2070 >0.05 r=0.0820 >0.05
IL-5 r=0.7806 <0.0001* r=0.5646 <0.05*
TNF-α r=0.4148 <0.05* r=0.2751 >0.05