Research Article
Correlation between Saliva and Plasma Levels of Endothelin Isoforms ET-1, ET-2, and ET-3
Table 2
Pearson product moment correlation (
-value) for endothelin isoforms in plasma (PL) and saliva (SL) of male subjects (
).
| | ET-1 PL | ET-2 PL | ET-3 PL | BET-1 SL | ET-1 SL | ET-2 SL | ET-3 SL |
| BET-1 PL | 0.39 (0.033) | 0.27 (0.157) | 0.46 (0.011) | 0.38 (0.041) | 0.30 (0.110) | −0.11 (0.571) | 0.41 (0.024) | ET-1 PL | | 0.25 (0.183) | 0.57 (0.001) | 0.31 (0.093) | 0.53 (0.003) | −0.22 (0.251) | 0.46 (0.011) | ET-2 PL | | | 0.13 (0.511) | 0.01 (0.974) | 0.15 (0.434) | 0.51 (0.004) | 0.16 (0.406) | ET-3 PL | | | | 0.17 (0.383) | 0.16 (0.409) | −0.29 (0.121) | 0.75 (<0.001) | BET-1 SL | | | | | 0.75 (<0.001) | −0.12 (0.534) | 0.31 (0.091) | ET-1 SL | | | | | | −0.13 (0.491) | 0.27 (0.144) | ET-2 SL | | | | | | | −0.167 (0.378) |
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Note: values are given in parentheses.
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