Table 4.

Clinicopathological correlation analysis of tubulointerstitial expression of inflammatory mediators in patients with LN

		Int mac		TIL		Scr		Proteinuria
	Markers	CC	p	CC	p	CC	p	CC	p
Tubule	CD40	0.472b	0.002	0.311a	0.047	0.400a	0.019	0.280	0.080
	CD40L	0.386	0.052	0.111	0.585	0.167	0.482	0.012	0.951
	TNF-α	0.244	0.220	0.150	0.425	0.085	0.707	−0.037	0.874
	IL-1β	0.276	0.098	0.309	0.052	0.397a	0.020	0.266	0.167
	ICAM-1	0.506b	0.001	0.364a	0.014	0.616b	<0.001	0.331a	0.030
	IL-6	0.414b	0.009	0.211	0.184	0.559b	0.001	0.110	0.505
	GM-CSF	0.620b	<0.001	0.453b	0.003	0.817b	0.001	0.330a	0.040
Interstitium	CD40	0.420b	0.007	0.292	0.064	0.274	0.116	0.061	0.707
	CD40L	0.348	0.082	0.175	0.398	0.284	0.224	0.307	0.127
	TNF-α	0.008	0.971	0.083	0.686	0.434	0.056	0.237	0.235
	IL-1β	−0.002	0.993	0.029	0.862	0.256	0.150	0.279	0.090
	ICAM-1	0.470b	0.002	0.391b	0.008	0.640b	<0.001	0.123	0.434
	IL-6	−0.056	0.731	−0.125	0.434	0.304	0.080	0.032	0.874
	GM-CSF	0.302	0.065	0.069	0.676	0.462b	0.007	0.420a	0.010

^aCorrelation was significant at the 0.05 level.

^bCorrelation was significant at the 0.01 level.

CC, correlation coefficients; other abbreviations as in Table 1.