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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Jul 19.
Published in final edited form as: Steroids. 2018 Oct 21;140:159–166. doi: 10.1016/j.steroids.2018.10.008

Table 2.

Data summary for candidate efficacy and safety biomarkers in anti-neutrophil antibody-associated vasculitis.

Protein Mean RFU’s Pre- treatment Mean RFU’s Posttreatment Mean difference Pre- to Post- treatment Ratio (Post/ Pre) Longitudinal paired t-test (P-value) Wilcoxon signed rank test (P-value)
Candidate Efficacy biomarkers
MMP-12 2840 1469 −1370 0.52 < 0.0001*** < 0.0001***
CD23 6122 3639 −2483 0.59 0.0015** < 0.0001***
MDC 1857 1416 −440 0.76 0.0002*** < 0.0001***
Protein C 1945 2194 249 1.13 0.0002*** 0.0003***
IL-22BP 4025 2934 −1091 0.73 0.0017** 0.002**
LY9 4868 4134 −733 0.85 0.003** 0.003**
FGG 11,867 10,624 −1243 0.90 0.018* 0.036*
ANGPT2 197 181 −16.6 0.92 0.055 0.041*
LT a1/b2 196 177 −19.3 0.90 0.043* 0.084
IGFBP-2 614 565 −49.3 0.92 0.297 0.393
ITGA1 ITGB1 851 752 −99.3 0.88 0.236 0.761
Candidate Safety biomarkers
Afamin 31,807 36,914 5106 1.16 0.0002*** < 0.0001***
Leptin 10,154 11,280 1126 1.11 0.015* 0.012**
Angiotensinogen 7260 8737 1476 1.20 0.006** 0.002**
MMP-3 3832 7345 3512 1.92 < 0.0001*** 0.0001***
IGFBP-5 1595 1755 159 1.10 0.006** 0.0003***
GHBP 1619 1608 −11.4 0.99 0.926 0.655
Insulin 288 325 37.2 1.13 0.355 0.198
*

P-value ≤0.05;

**

P-value ≤0.01;

***

P-value ≤0.001

Abbreviations: MMP12 = matrix metalloproteinase-12; MDC = macrophage derived cytokine; IL-22 BP = interleukin-22 binding protein; LY9 = T lymphocyte antigen Ly9; FGG = fibrinogen gamma chain; ANGPT2 = angiopoietin-2; LT a1/b2 = lymphotoxin a1/b2; IGFBP-2 = insulin-like growth factor binding protein-2; ITGA1 ITGB1 = Integrin A1 B1; MMP-3 = matrix metalloproteinase-3; IGFBP-5 = insulin-like growth factor binding protein-5; GHBP = growth hormone binding protein.