. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Sep 2.

Published in final edited form as: Biometals. 2009 Sep 17;23(1):51–58. doi: 10.1007/s10534-009-9266-8

Table 3.

Correlations between zinc transporter mRNA levels and zinc concentrations in the dorsolateral lobes

	Correlation coefficient	P-value
ZnT1	0.04	0.81
ZnT2	0.38^*	0.034
ZnT3	−0.20	0.28
ZnT4	−0.18	0.32
Zip1	0.24	0.18
Zip2	0.35	0.053
Zip3	−0.12	0.50
Zip4	−0.14	0.45

Sprague–Dawley rats were fed a MZD, MZD + P or ZA diet for 9 weeks. Zinc concentrations were measured by ICP-OES and ZnT2 mRNA levels were measured by qRT-PCR as described in “Material and methods”

Pearson analysis was performed to analyze the correlation between dorsolateral prostate zinc concentrations and zinc transporter mRNA transcript levels, n = 32

P<0.05