Table 1.

Pearson’s correlation between hippocampal neurogenesis, hippocampal/dentate gyrus expressions of BMPs, Noggin, Gremlin, and IL-17A and TNF-α levels in serum.

Variable	Gender	Average Grey Value BMP4	Average Grey Value BMP7	Average Grey Value Noggin	Average Grey Value Gremlin	TNF-α	IL-17A
DCX+ cells	Males	0.01	−0.22	0.83 ***	0.10	−0.13	−0.31
	Females	0.82 ***	0.47	0.62 *	0.02	0.54 *	−0.59 *
Ki67+ cells	Males	0.37	−0.45	0.31	0.69 **	−0.01	0.44
	Females	0.82 ***	0.45	0.57 *	−0.22	0.51 *	−0.57 *
DCX/Ki67	Males	−0.27	0.22	0.56 *	−0.45	−0.19	−0.63 *
	Females	0.35	0.18	0.33	0.52 *	0.23	−0.23
TNF-α	Males	−0.42	0.44	−0.11	−0.13	/	/
	Females	0.15	0.96 ***	−0.19	−0.11	/	/
IL-17A	Males	0.54 *	−0.28	−0.65 *	0.85 ***	/	/
	Females	−0.79 ***	0.0002	−0.82 ***	0.05	/	/

* p < 0.05, ** p < 0.01 and *** p < 0.001.