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Table 5.

Correlation matrix showing the gene–gene interaction among ER stress and pro-inflammatory markers in visceral adipose tissue.

Gene	PERK	ATF-4	CHOP	IRE-1α	XBP-1s	GRP-78	IL-6	TNFα
	r	r	r	r	r	r	r	r
PERK	1	0.000	0.274^*	0.091	0.249^*	0.272^*	0.409^***	0.480^***
ATF-4	0.000	1	0.404^**	0.188	0.279^*	0.458^***	0.176	0.245^*
CHOP	0.274^*	0.404^**	1	0.379^**	0.471^***	0.571^***	0.600^***	0.417^***
IRE-1α	0.091	0.188	0.379^**	1	0.637^***	0.212	0.443^***	0.250^*
XBP-1s	0.249^*	0.279^*	0.471^***	0.637^***	1	0.279^*	0.420^***	0.398^**
GRP-78	0.272^*	0.458^***	0.571^***	0.212	0.279^*	1	0.283^*	0.390^**
IL-6	0.409^***	0.176	0.600^***	0.443^***	0.420^***	0.283^*	1	0.580^***
TNF α	0.480^***	0.245^*	0.417^***	0.250^*	0.398^**	0.390^**	0.580^***	1

r, correlation coefficient.

*p ≤ 0.05; **p ≤ 0.01; ***p ≤ 0.001.