Table 3.
Partial Spearman correlation between total As and proportions of As species in urine and between total As and proportions of As species in livers of CC mice exposed to 0.1 ppm and 50 ppm iAs in drinking water
Correlation between: | 0.1 ppm |
50 ppm |
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Rho | p | Rho | p | ||
Total As in urine | %iAs in urine | − 0.446 | 0.001 | − 0.258 | 0.073 |
Total As in urine | %MAs in urine | − 0.413 | 0.003 | 0.346 | 0.015 |
Total As in urine | %DMAs in urine | 0.447 | 0.001 | − 0.410 | 0.004 |
Total As in liver | %iAs in liver | 0.119 | 0.404 | 0.190 | 0.191 |
Total As in liver | %MAs in liver | − 0.174 | 0.221 | 0.214 | 0.140 |
Total As in liver | %DMAs in liver | 0.076 | 0.594 | − 0.266 | 0.065 |
The concentration of total As and proportions of As species for each CC strain were normalized for the average water consumption for the strain at given exposure level. p values for statistically significant correlations are shown in bold font; p values for marginally significant correlations are underlined