Table 6.
Spearman correlation coefficients between toxic metal concentrations (Mn, Fe and Sr) in different bone materials (cartilage, spongy bone, compact bone, cartilage with compact bone) of the fox
| Mn C | Mn SB | Mn CB | Mn C + CB | Fe C | Fe SB | Fe CB | Fe C + CB | Sr C | Sr SB | Sr CB | Sr C + CB | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Mn C | – | 0.507** | NS | 0.834*** | 0.801*** | 0.442* | NS | 0.618*** | NS | NS | NS | NS |
| Mn SB | – | NS | 0.460** | 0.638*** | 0.707*** | NS | 0.490** | NS | NS | NS | NS | |
| Mn CB | – | 0.473** | NS | NS | 0.581*** | 0.364* | NS | NS | 0.492** | 0.445** | ||
| Mn C + CB | – | 0.729*** | 0.423* | 0.545*** | 0.754*** | NS | NS | NS | NS | |||
| Fe C | – | 0.569*** | NS | 0.819*** | NS | NS | NS | NS | ||||
| Fe SB | – | NS | 0.461** | NS | 0.411* | NS | NS | |||||
| Fe CB | – | 0.659*** | NS | NS | 0.373* | 0.361* | ||||||
| Fe C + CB | – | NS | NS | NS | NS | |||||||
| Sr C | – | 0.390* | NS | 0.573*** | ||||||||
| Sr SB | – | NS | 0.457** | |||||||||
| Sr CB | – | 0.817*** | ||||||||||
| Sr C + CB | – |
C cartilage, SB spongy bone, CB compact bone, C + CB cartilage with compact bone, NS statistically non-significant difference
*p < 0.05, **p < 0.01, ***p < 0.001, levels of significance