Table 3.

Correlation coefficients of transcriptional expression levels of copper regulatory proteins and cellular markers in SVZ.

	Age	SVZ-Cu	Gfap	Nestin	Dcx	Ctr1	Dmt1	Atp7a	Atp7b	Cox17	Atox1	Ccs	Mt1a	Mt2a	Mt3
Age	1.000	0.984**	0.540**	−0.584**	−0.551**	−0.733**	0.412*	0.231	0.484*	0.308	0.073	0.521*	0.669**	0.365	0.806**
SVZ-Cu		1.000	0.482*	−0.552**	−0.492*	−0.638**	0.422*	0.214	0.556*	0.279	0.042	0.477*	0.712**	0.414*	0.779**
Gfap			1.000	−0.622**	−0.999**	−0.701**	−0.037	−0.166	−0.109	0.001	−0.045*	0.120	0.038	−0.225	0.272
Nestin				1.000	0.643**	0.585**	−0.071	0.209	−0.160	−0.170	−0.257	−0.174	−0.310	−0.139	−0.438
Dcx					1.000	0.715**	0.037	0.164	0.107	0.000	0.037	−0.123	−0.046	0.219	−0.279
Ctr1						1.000	0.121	0.131	0.072	0.031	0.062	−0.227	−0.077	0.227	−0.423*
Dmt1							1.000	0.731**	0.555**	0.770**	0.558**	0.727**	0.773**	0.773**	0.732**
Atp7a								1.000	0.406*	0.564*	0.305	0.592**	0.541*	0.566**	0.452*
Atp7b									1.000	0.603**	0.128	0.621**	0.756**	0.772**	0.660**
Cox17										1.000	0.523*	0.890**	0.698**	0.772**	0.793**
Atox1											1.000	0.257	0.290	0.299	0.352
Ccs												1.000	0.726**	0.719**	0.873**
Mt1a													1.000	0.905**	0.853**
Mt2a														1.000	0.720**
Mt3															1.000

*correlation is significant at the p < 0.05 level (2-tailed); **correlation is significant at the p < 0.01 level (2-tailed). n = 6.