Table 2.

Correlation pattern between intermediates in the arginine/NO pathway and cytokines, chemokines, and growth factors.

Cytokine	Arg	Cit	ADMA	SDMA (log)	Arg/ADMA	Arg/SDMA
FGF2	0.13	-0.29	-0.17	-0.28	0.21	0.27
G-CSF	0.12	-0.35∗	-0.27	-0.37∗	0.42‡	0.41‡
GM-CSF (log)	0.06	-0.39∗	-0.36∗	-0.42‡	0.39∗	0.36∗
IL-1β	0.10	-0.27	-0.27	-0.36∗	0.38∗	0.35∗
IL-4	0.17	-0.32∗	-0.21	-0.34∗	0.32∗	0.36∗
IL-6 (log)	0.08	-0.30	-0.39∗	-0.23	0.52†	0.27
IL-8	-0.06	-0.36∗	-0.30	-0.34∗	0.28	0.23
MCP1 (log)	-0.07	-0.24	-0.10	-0.25	0.10	0.20
MIP-1α	0.07	-0.07	-0.16	-0.20	0.23	0.22
PDGF (log)	0.25	-0.21	-0.10	-0.17	0.27	0.28
TNFα (log)	0.14	-0.31	-0.32∗	-0.38∗	0.46‡	0.40∗
VEGF-A (log)	-0.07	-0.28	-0.37∗	-0.28	0.32∗	0.14

^∗ p ≤ 0.05, ^‡ p < 0.01, and ^† p < 0.001. Data were analyzed using the Pearson test and reported as correlation coefficients r.