Table 5.
Partial Spearman correlation between total As in livers and urine, between total As in livers and proportions of As species in urine, and between total As in urine 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 liver | Total As in urine | − 0.356 | 0.010 | 0.244 | 0.092 |
| Total As in liver | %iAs in urine | − 0.019 | 0.895 | 0.051 | 0.729 |
| Total As in liver | %MAs in urine | − 0.072 | 0.614 | − 0.148 | 0.311 |
| Total As in liver | %DMAs in urine | 0.020 | 0.888 | 0.167 | 0.251 |
| Total As in urine | %iAs in liver | − 0.135 | 0.346 | − 0.135 | 0.354 |
| Total As in urine | %MAs in liver | 0.273 | 0.053 | − 0.349 | 0.014 |
| Total As in urine | %DMAs in liver | − 0.087 | 0.544 | 0.368 | 0.009 |
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