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. 2010 Nov 19;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