Table 2.

sEH expression and clinical parameters in normal and diseased patients

			Patients
		Normal	Total	MCD	MN	IgAN
sEH expression in cortex	+	10	11	1	1	9
	++	0	41	4	13	24
	+++	0	67	15	20	32
	++++	0	34	8	16	10
sEH expression		1.00 (n = 10)	2.8 ± 0.9* (n = 153)	3.1 ± 0.8*† (n = 28)	3.0 ± 0.8*† (n = 50)	2.6 ± 0.9* (n = 75)
24-h proteinuria, g/d	<0.15	4.0 ± 0.3	6.9 ± 3.8†	5.5 ± 4.0†	3.9 ± 3.9
Serum albumin level, U/l	46 ± 6.4	31.3 ± 8.1	22.8 ± 4.9†	27.9 ± 5.7†	35.6 ± 9.1
Incidence of edema, %	0.00	59.2	96.0†	87.4†	33.8

Data are expressed as means ± SD. MCD, minimal change nephropathy; MN, membranous nephropathy; IgAN, IgA nephropathy.

^*P < 0.01 vs. normal group.

^†P < 0.05 vs. IgAN.