Table 2.

Correlations (Pearson correlation coefficient) between microvessel density (MVD) and the numbers of immunoreactive vessels and stromal cells in epiretinal fibrovascular membranes from patients with proliferative diabetic retinopathy.

	Variable	r	p-value
MVD	• Blood vessels expressing CXCL16	0.530	0.024*
	• Stromal cells expressing CXCL16	0.661	0.003*
	• Blood vessels expressing CX3CL1	0.510	0.031*
	• Stromal cells expressing CX3CL1	0.041	0.870
	• Blood vessels expressing CXCR6	0.581	0.014*
	• Stromal cells expressing CXCR6	0.678	0.003
	• Blood vessels expressing CX3CR1	0.616	0.006*
	• Blood vessels expressing ADAM10	0.736	0.006*
	• Stromal cells expressing ADAM10	0.753	0.005*
	• Blood vessels expressing ADAM17	0.679	0.011*
	• Stromal cells expressing ADAM17	0.565	0.044*

*Statistically significant at 5% level of significance.