Table 1.

Spearman’s rank correlation coefficients between HSP90α and signaling proteins and their proposed cellular targets in the whole hepatocyte lysates of pollutant-stressed fish

Variable 1	Variable 2	rs	p
HSP90α	ASK1	0.106	NS
	p-JNK1/2	0.106	NS
	STAT1α	0.868	0.05*
	STAT3	0.829	0.05*
	p-ERK1	0.894	0.05*
	p-Akt	0.953	0.05*
p-ERK1	p-Elk-1	0.988	0.05*
	NF-κB	0.959	0.05*
	p-JNK1/2	−0.026	NS
p-Akt	Bcl-2	1.000	0.05*
	NF-κB	0.829	0.05*
	ASK1	0.026	NS
p-JNK1/2	ASK1	0.982	0.05*
	Elk-1	0.021	NS
	Bcl-2	0.018	NS
	NF-κB	−0.058	NS
STAT1α/STAT3	NF-κB	0.934/0.874	0.05*

The correlation coefficient (Spearman’s rho—r_s) values were significant and showed a perfect positive correlation at *p < 0.05. Certain r_s values were statistically not significant (NS) demonstrating a nil linear correlation between the variables