AFM Characterization of the Internal Mammary Artery as a Novel Target for Arterial Stiffening

Table 3

Spearman’s rank-order correlation for assessing correlations of elastic modulus (E) of the different layers, PWV and SLRP expressions.

		Hydrated media	Dehydrated media	Dehydrated adventitia	Dehydrated media and adventitia
Number of patients		14	17	17	17
PWV		0.63	0.62	0.56	0.62
		0.017	0.008	0.02	0.009
Number of patients		12	12	12	12
Lumican		−0.71	−0.20	−0.50	−0.30
		0.01	0.54	0.10	0.34
Mimecan		−0.54	−0.02	−0.45	−0.22
		0.07	0.95	0.15	0.50
Prolargin		−0.72	−0.48	−0.52	−0.38
		0.008	0.12	0.09	0.23
Asporin		−0.62	−0.51	−0.39	−0.37
		0.033	0.09	0.21	0.24
Podocan		−0.48	−0.27	−0.34	−0.18
		0.11	0.39	0.28	0.57
Decorin		−0.63	−0.22	−0.34	−0.22
		0.028	0.48	0.29	0.48
Biglycan		−0.15	−0.12	−0.20	−0.07
		0.63	0.71	0.53	0.83